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copper-bottomed
adjective
- reliable, esp financially reliable
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Word History and Origins
Origin of copper-bottomed1
from the former practice of coating the bottoms of ships with copper to prevent the timbers rotting
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Example Sentences
The very kind of case a real copper-bottomed expert would be some use in!
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But Toplinskys stomach was cast iron and copper bottomed, and just a slight hesitation flickered across his face.
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His copper-bottomed ships came up with and captured six of the enemy, five of which were English prizes.
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The wreck proved to be a beautiful copper-bottomed schooner, of about a hundred and eighty tons burthen.
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Otherwise we caught nothing, as heretofore, because fish most generally avoid copper-bottomed vessels, such as ours.
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