good as wheat in the bin

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good as wheat in the bin (not comparable)

  1. (US, simile, dated) Perfectly good, sound, or reliable.
    • 1917, Pearson's Magazine, volume 38, page 43:
      Then write to any of the banks mentioned, to any rating agency, to any financial house, and they will tell you that here is an opportunity that is as good as wheat in the bin.
    • 1989, David Wheeler, No, But I Saw the Movie, page 167:
      He can get more potatoes on the strength of a telegram to some place or other than John D. Rockefeller can get on collateral, for everybody knows The Sky's word is as good as wheat in the bin.
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