Copper-Bottomed Meaning

(Britain, idiomatic) Thoroughly reliable.

Example: Having lower parts made of or covered by copper (especially of a ship or cookware).
1807, Washington Irving, Salmagundi:[1]
  The copper-bottomed angel at Messrs. Paff’s in Broadway.

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