Transcript of “Safe as Houses (Except One of Straw or Sticks?)”
Grant, I’ve been really enjoying the TV series Down Cemetery Road. Have you seen it?
No, I haven’t.
I think you’d like it. It’s a thriller that’s also very funny in spots from the creator of Slow Horses.
And it’s also funny because it’s anchored by the brilliant Emma Thompson.
Oh, I love her to pieces.
Yeah.
And I’m picking up some great British slang that I didn’t know already.
You probably already do.
But one of the expressions is safe as houses.
This is safe as houses.
Oh, yeah, sure.
That just means very, very safe.
Right, right.
And it comes from either the idea of a house being, you know, solid structure, or maybe from the idea of houses traditionally being a good property investment.
So safe as houses.
Let us know new words and phrases that you’re coming across.
