copper-bottomed

copper-bottomed

Very safe or stable, especially financially. This is a copper-bottomed offer to distribute your invention, so I think you should take it.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • copper
  • ain’t 1
  • have swallowed a dictionary
  • bottom out
  • go out of
  • other than
  • other than (something)
  • pillow-biter
  • let something drop
  • on one
References in periodicals archive
World Kitchen is adding three copper-bottomed lines to its Revere brand, and Gourmet Standard, VillaWare and Nordic Ware are each launching lines of cast-aluminum cookware here.
COOKWARE VENDORS HIT CHICAGO WITH NEW PRODUCTS
Though more visually rigorous than the kid-centered "Son," and certainly less playful and humorous, pic is a copper-bottomed fest entry, with limited distribution potential beyond highly specialized outlets.
THE CHIMP
I can't guarantee a film star as your dinner companion, but the real celebrity here is on the plate; a copper-bottomed classic.
Salad is just the cobb for summer!
Yet when he meets political and business leaders in Atlanta, Cincinnati and Chicago, the First Minister knows he will not be able to offer them the copper-bottomed assurances they would like.
Single Market vital for Welsh exports; COMMENT
You'll win more dough and it's just as copper-bottomed.
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Yet all talk has been about Collins and the apparent copper-bottomed entertainment she would've provided had she stuck it out.
Real jungle gems
All delivered with copper-bottomed acting from Tom, Una McLean and Sally Howitt.
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Matt Draper said: "We are seeking copper-bottomed guarantees that the Voyager scheme will continue in its present form and that the auto-enrolment scheme won't become the pension scheme of choice by default.
Jag parts workers face huge pension cutbacks
New aircraft carriers are to be built on Clydeside because Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling looked after their fellow Scots in signing copper-bottomed contracts for Scottish shipbuilders.
Scrap Union and back Tyneside's shipyards; VOICE OF THE NORTH
And it has to get its priorities right, such as copper-bottomed pension funds.
Letter: Bumpy roads smooth the way for councillors
Being copper-fastened and copper-bottomed, the vessel was valuable salvage, Mr Fry pointed out.
Blast from the past for one reader; REMEMBER WHEN
Jim Boyle has his string in fine form at present and Copper-bottomed can add another victory to his tally in the Packed Full Of Fun That's Pontins Claiming Stakes at Southwell.
Horse Racing: Jumping Jack holds the aces at Leicester
And what seemed a copper-bottomed move for Chelsea's pounds 5m rated second string stopper Robert Huth, pictured, has hit the buffers after the German international failed his medical.
Rely on Southgate know-how
An extension to all Flat races would undoubtedly swell the pools even more, although opponents who seek a copper-bottomed guaranteed amount may still not be satisfied by the wholly defendable assumption.
Fly on trail of pool cash
Mr Brown failed to give a copper-bottomed assurance that Tony Blair would lead the party into the next election, saying only that it was "a matter for him".
Brown sets tongues wagging over PM's future