sound as a bell

Idioms  

1. In excellent condition, as in Now that the brakes have been relined, the car is sound as a bell, or The surgery went well and now he's sound as a bell. This simile rests on the assumption that the bell in question is not cracked (which would make it useless). First recorded in 1565, it has survived numerous other similes (sound as a top or roach or dollar), probably owing to its pun on “sound.”

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sound as a bell

And then there are some trees in the valleys under the mountains, sound as a bell, and bad right through.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

The jade's as sound as a bell; she never had a doctor in her life, I'll swear; she just won't sit, doesn't want to.

From The Debit Account by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

There was I, forty and more, but sound, Mrs. Clinton, mind you, sound as a bell, though no beauty—ha, ha!

From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall

Everything went well with his preparation; the horse was as sound as a bell, and under Brant's tuition became quiet and docile.

From Fast as the Wind A Novel by Nat Gould

The dissipation, the dining-out, and all the devilment would destroy him entirely; but a few weeks' peace and quietness up at Murranakilty will make him as sound as a bell.'

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

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