Until recently, she was a safe pair of hands.

直到最近，梅还是个可靠的帮手，她还是个女性，而这两者都是大卫卡梅伦所缺少的。

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She favours Clooney, in what would be his most challenging role to date, as a safe pair of hands.

她认同克鲁尼是扮演这个角色的可靠人选，即便对他来说，这是到目前为止最有挑战性的一个角色。

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Mr Darling is too familiar a figure now to extract much benefit from this kind of event, but he showed once again that he is a safe pair of hands.

达林是个太为人熟知的大人物，往往无法从这类事件中获益，但是，他又一次证明他是一个让人放心的人。

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But with his image as a safe pair of hands in tatters, that may now change.

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Mr Portillo cannot offer a safe pair of hands but he can claim to be interesting.

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"We could have just gone for a safe pair of hands, " Law admitted to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

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