safe and sound

English

Etymology

Conjunction of safe (“not in danger”) and sound (“healthy”). Compare with Old French sauf et sain.

Adjective

safe and sound (not comparable)

1. Having come to no harm, especially after being exposed to danger.

   Synonyms: in one piece, unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, unscathed

   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 96:

     Come to the Centaur, fetch our ſtuffe from thence: / I long that we were ſafe and ſound aboord.

Translations

having come to no harm

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: sağ-salamat
• Catalan: sa i estalvi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安好 (zh) (ānhǎo), 平安 (zh) (píng'ān), 亳髮無傷／亳发无伤 (bòfāwúshāng), 安然無恙／安然无恙 (zh) (ānránwúyàng)

• Dutch: veilig en wel
• Esperanto: sanigita kaj savita
• Finnish: kunnossa (fi), turvassa (fi)
• French: sain et sauf (fr)
• Galician: san e salvo m, sa e salva f
• German: wohlbehalten (de), ganz und heil, gesund und munter
• Greek: σώος και αβλαβής (el) (sóos kai avlavís)
• Hindi: सहीसलामत (hi) (sahīslāmat)
• Hungarian: ép és egészséges (hu)
• Icelandic: heill á húfi m, heilu og höldnu, klakklaust
• Interlingua: san e salve
• Italian: sano e salvo m, sana e salva f, incolume (it), indenne (it)
• Japanese: 無事に (ja) (ぶじに, buji-ni)
• Khmer: ដោយសោត្ថិភាព (daoy saottʰe’pʰiep), ដោយសុវត្ថិភាព (daoy so’vattʰe’pʰiep), សុវត្ថិភាពនិងសុខុដុម (sowtthephiəpnɨngsokhodom), សុខសុវត្ថិភាព (soksowtthephiəp)
• Korean: 무사하다 (ko) (musahada)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ساغ و سەلیم (saẍ û selîm)

• Latin: sani salvique, sospes, incolumis
• Latvian: sveiks un vesels
• Lithuanian: sveikas ir gyvas
• Mongolian: энх тунх (enx tunx)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: helskinnet

• Polish: cały i zdrowy (pl) m, cała i zdrowa f
• Portuguese: são e salvo m, sã e salva f
• Punjabi: ਠੀਕ ਠਾਕ (ṭhīk ṭhāk)
• Romanian: teafăr (ro) m or n, sănătos (ro) m or n, teafăr și nevătămat m or n
• Russian: в це́лости и сохра́нности (v célosti i soxránnosti), це́лый и невреди́мый (célyj i nevredímyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: zdrav i čitav
• Slovak: živý a zdravý m, živá a zdravá f
• Spanish: sano y salvo
• Swedish: välbehållen (sv), helskinnad (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sağ salim (tr), sağ selamet (tr)

References

• "safe and sound" in the Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989. See "safe."