I've looked up each and every possible meanings of sound. I've reduced the options to two or so. But I still find it hard to ascertain the meaning of sound and the way its is used in this context.
Here it is:
We cannot, like fear-ridden peasants of antiquity, hope to load all our crimes onto a goat and then drive the hapless animal into the desert. Our everyday idiom is quite sound in regarding “scapegoating” with contempt.
Naturally, I can't come up with an intelligible meaning or paraphrasing of the relevant sentence.
My trials:
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The idiom we use everyday is highly reliable to despise "scapegoating".
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The idiom we use everyday has very valid reasons for looking down on "scapegoating". (The idiom has reasons??? I don't know.)
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The idiom we use everyday gives us very valid reasons to disdain "scapegoating".
Obviously, I'm confused and need help.
Thank you.
Best Answer
I would liken the use of the word Sound in this context to follow Oxford's definition 1.1 under the adj form.
So considering that the idiom 'scapegoating' is generally used with a negative connotation the sentence is saying.
because "We cannot, like fear-ridden peasants of antiquity, hope to load all our crimes onto a goat and then drive the hapless animal into the desert." the use of idiom 'scapegoating' to show contempt for this type of behavior is reasonable/sensible or based on good judgement.