Additionally, we talk of someone giving you sound advice. That means the same thing. The advice is based on thorough investigation and after thoughtful consideration. In other words, it’s good advice. Follow it and you will do no wrong.
Although I cannot be so sure of the last point, that you follow a piece of sound advice and everything will turn out marvelous for you. No, I can never guarantee you that. No one can. After all, as Oscar Wilde points out, all advice is bad advice, or something along this vein. And good advice, he advises, is absolutely fatal.
Anyways, “safe and sound” is a fixed phrase. “Missing student returns home safe” will do but “safe and sound” will do just as nicely, emphasizing that the student is coming home in complete good health and spirits, that he/she has escaped from some potentially dangerous situation unscathed.
And this phrase is cited in the Christian Bible (And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound – King James Version of Luke 15:27), so you know it’s in the language for centuries. It’s in the language for so long that native speakers take it for granted, saying it and repeating it no questions asked.
My point is, if you meet this phrase again and again in print and in conversation, you’ll take it for granted, too, with no questions asked.
Still, it is a good question for a foreigner to ask. And I thank you for that.
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