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hale and hearty
Idioms and Phrases
In robust good health, as in After her long bout with pneumonia, I was glad to see her hale and hearty . This redundant expression, since both hale and hearty here mean “healthy,†probably survives owing to its pleasing alliteration. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
The initiatives — often funded by health care systems and insurance companies with a vested interest in a hale and hearty population — promote solutions like smoking bans, biking paths and group activities that foster a sense of belonging.
Keep that in mind when taking the pulse of broadcast and cable in its current state, which is far from hale and hearty.
Gaining any new clarity about surging reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, will take time, better data gathering and diagnostic tools and, perhaps most importantly, a hale and hearty dose of nit-picking scientific scrutiny.
He was never entirely hale and hearty after that.
Back in 1995 he is no longer ailing, but hale and hearty and 40-something himself.
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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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