Brewer's: Sound as a Bell

Quite sound. A cracked bell is useless as a bell.

Blinde Fortune did so happily contrive, That we, as sound as bells, did safe arive At Dover.

Taylor's Workes, ii. 22 (1630).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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