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.

Translations

in excellent condition

Russian: в (v) полном (polnom) здравии (zdravii) (v pólnom zdrávii)

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