sound as a bell
English
Adjective
sound as a bell (not comparable)
- (simile, colloquial) In excellent condition.
- 1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene 2:
- He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks.
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