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apple a day
Idioms and Phrases
A small preventive treatment wards off serious problems, as in He exercises regularly—an apple a day is his motto . This idiom shortens the proverb An apple a day keeps the doctor away , first cited about 1630.Example Sentences
“Our ancestors, always hurried,” she writes in “Angel in the Forest,” “left little evidence of their existence, if one discounts intangibles, a sundial, an apple a day, an angel in the forest.”
But whoever said an apple a day keeps the doctor away was lying.
“For both an enlarged prostate and prostate cancer, there’s no ‘apple a day’ to prevent this,” he says.
Stacy took the photo and said, "Yeah. Buttons always acts like he's hungry. Mr. Johnson only lets me give him one apple a day, but I bet he'd eat more. If Buttons was my pony, I'd give him all the apples he ever wanted."
While eating an apple a day won't necessarily cut down substantially on prescription medications or doctors visits, it could be one step in the direction of making the transition to eating more healthful, fiber-filled, whole foods.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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