FORT KNOX


Meaning of FORT KNOX in English

ˌFort ˈKnox BrE AmE

people often use the name ‘Fort Knox’ when talking about a place that is extremely well guarded or impossible to enter without permission. It comes from a military building in the US state of Kentucky which holds the government’s store of gold:

His house is like Fort Knox.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.