- English translation
Safe and prospering, prospering and safe.
- Literal wording
Safety is in good, and good is in safety.
- Meaning and lesson
The saying celebrates a doubly happy outcome: a person or venture has come through unharmed and has also come out ahead. Safety and good fortune are presented as wrapped inside each other, so neither is missing and the result is complete contentment.
The reversed pairing of safety and gain strengthens the sense of a complete, happy outcome. Neither is purchased at the expense of the other: the person or undertaking comes through unharmed and also benefits. The saying is therefore suited to relief combined with gratitude or satisfaction, rather than to escape alone.
- When it is used
Fitting when a matter has ended with no harm done and something gained, as a warm acknowledgment that the outcome brought both safety and benefit at once.
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