Fort Knox
📖 Definitions
noun
1. An inordinate amount of wealth.
2. A place extraordinarily secure and thus impossible to break into.
💬 Usage Examples
“The net result is a Fort Knox of vested-interest cash fighting for fewer and fewer genuinely contestable seats in an increasingly unrepresentative electorate.” Peter Hartcher; Democracy Is Fragile. Guard It; Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia); Oct 17, 2020. “Q: Your TV wife, Mandy Moore, recently let it drop that there was a big hot plot twist at the start of Season 4.
Can you hint at what we should expect? A: I think I’m a little more of a Fort Knox than Mandy Moore.” Kathryn Shattuck; Milo Ventimiglia Finds a Good Guy Lane; The New York Times; Aug 4, 2019.