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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Safe
 
  Safe as a tortoise under its shell.
            —Alexander Adam		  1
  Safe as a blockhouse.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Safe as a child on its mother’s breast.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Safe as a crow in a gutter.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Safe as a mouse in a cheese.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Safe as a mouse in a mill.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Safe as a rat in a trap.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Safe as a sardine.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Safe as Solomon’s birds.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Safe as a thief in a mill.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Safe as a wall of brass.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Safe as caged.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Safe as brandy.
            —Miss A. E. Baker (Northamptonshire Glossary)		  13
  Saif tu take as a fotograph.
            —Josh Billings		  14
  Safe from harm as sings the lark when sucked up out of sight in vortices of glory and blue air.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  15
  Safe as the Bank of England.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  16
As safe and sacred from the step of man
As an invisible world.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  17
  Safe as my life.
            —R. Davenport (New Tricks to Cheat the Devil)		  18
  Safe as a stone in a peach.
            —Alfred Head		  19
  Safe as a fish.
            —Help to Discourse		  20
  Safe as a fox in a trap.
            —Charles Kingsley		  21
  Safe as in the bank.
            —Richard Le Gallienne		  22
  Safe as in bed.
            —Charles Reade		  23
  Safe as Priam is in Ilion.
            —William Shakespeare		  24
  Safe as thy gold in the strong box.
            —William Somerville		  25
  Safe as hunted wolf within his lair.
            —Theodore Watts-Dunton		  26
 
 
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