Solidity is everything.
I got solid grades on all exams.

“'Better safe than sorry', Dad would impart the motto that'd helped him tread the first forty odd years of his life to me.”
She flashed me a toothless couldn't-hear-the-end-of-it-grin, 'Twas not until the dust had settled that I realised one could err so much on the safe side that she'd end up looping all the way around to being sorry.'
She gave her best shot at a wistful sigh, but her dimples left little doubt that to her, it was all a thing of the past then.