Quite sound. A cracked bell is useless as a bell.
“Blinde Fortune did so happily contrive,
That we as sound as bells, did safe arive
At Dover.”
Taylor’s Workes. ii. 22 (1630).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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