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Fort Knox

noun

a military reservation in N Kentucky, SSW of Louisville: location of U.S. federal gold depository since 1936.

Fort Knox

/ nɒks /

a military reservation in N Kentucky: site of the US Gold Bullion Depository. Pop: 12 377 (2000)

The victors celebrate as if they were just given access to all the gold in Fort Knox, to do with what they will.

Most of us conduct ourselves online as if our computers are built like Fort Knox.

Imagine that all the nuclear weapons and bomb-usable nuclear materials in the world were locked up as good as gold in Fort Knox.

Television quiz programs with an aspect of having just staged a raid on Fort Knox are very much in the news these days.

They knew that the places where the bombs had fallen were guarded like Fort Knox.

Come through on this one, and you'll be better off than the gold in Fort Knox.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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