Well attestedNamed from the place
solid as the Rock of Gibraltar
adjective · first attested 19th century
An insurance company built a global brand on one limestone headland.
Utterly dependable and impossible to shake.
36.1400°N -5.3500°W · Q1410
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
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- 19th century
- Part of speech
- adjective
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Gibraltar
- In English
solid as the Rock of Gibraltar
The limestone promontory at the mouth of the Mediterranean has been fortified for centuries, and its silhouette became shorthand for permanence. Prudential adopted the Rock as its emblem in the 1890s, which planted the simile in American advertising for a century.
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