solid as Fort Knox

adjective

Extremely solid.

Meanings

adjectivesolid as Fort Knox (not comparable)
  1. not comparableExtremely solid.

    The Big Man, of course, had had an alibi as solid as Fort Knox. He had been held and questioned, but was quickly sprung by the best lawyer in Harlem.

    1954, Ian Fleming, “A Visiting-Card”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 22
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