safe as houses
Utterly without risk
Safe as houses means completely secure or reliable.
The phrase is chiefly British, expressing strong confidence in safety or certainty: Your money's safe as houses with that bank, The investment is safe as houses.
The comparison draws on the solidity and permanence of brick houses, though the expression often appears in contexts having nothing to do with property.
- foolproofIncapable of failure
- rock solidUtterly reliable and stable
- shelteredKept safe from harm
- reliableConsistently performing as expected
- dead certGuaranteed outcome
impregnable · secure · sure thing · trustworthy · guarded · certainty · copper-bottomed · belt and braces · lock · protected · unshakable · gilt-edged · bulletproof · haven · nailed down · built like a brick outhouse · solid · home free
- Complacencytoo comfortable, going through motions, phoning it in, mailing it in, self-satisfied
safe as housesrisky
Involving possible harm
dangerous · perilous · precarious · hazardous · unsafe
safe as housesuncertain
Not firmly known
unreliable · touch and go · unpredictable · shaky · iffy
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