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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
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On the other hand, ministers said Rwanda had given copper-bottomed guarantees and diplomatic assurances of fair treatment.
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They'll also be given far more legal time to draw up a copper-bottomed case for court.
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If she comes back with a copper-bottomed hit, she could easily find herself at the outset of a second imperial phase.
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we said: “It’s held together by sharp, tunefully lovely songwriting, and the likes of Make Me a Song and Everything are copper-bottomed, classy, euphoric electropop.”
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Even if the Oxford paper’s new budgets were copper-bottomed truths, though, they would hardly provide the respite they might seem to.
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