Safe in taxis?

[3a-berkeley.livejournal.com]

Am I delusional or did Bertie once describe himself as being 'safe in taxis'?

Comments

[helenajust.livejournal.com]

If he did say that, it wouldn't mean the same thing as "safe as houses". I would interpret it to mean that he wouldn't pounce on an unwilling girl.

[oonaseckar.livejournal.com]

That's what I assumed myself. That, or he won't run out on a fare and stiff a poor unsuspecting cab-driver.

[drachenmina]

I would interpret it to mean that he wouldn't pounce on an unwilling girl.

Yes, this is the way I've seen it used before, although then it was girls warning one another that so-and-so was "not safe in taxis" (magazine article about debutantes, I believe).

Don't recall Bertie describing himself as safe in taxis, but he absolutely would be, of course! :)

[3a-berkeley.livejournal.com]

Yes it does mean that. The phrase came up in the comments on another comm and I thought 'I've heard that before...where??? Didn't Bertie Wooster say it once? Either in one of the stories or on the tv series?' So I thought I would ask and see if it was true or did I imagine it?