| 词汇 | hale and hearty |
| 释义 | Idiom hale and hearty Theme: HEALTH - GOOD well and healthy. (Fixed order.)Doesn't Ann look hale and hearty?I don't feel hale and hearty. I'm really tired. Idiom hale and hearty an old person who is hale and hearty is still very healthy and strong.At 77 he is hale and hearty, getting up at six every morning to walk three miles. hale and hearty adjective a party. Rhyming slang UK, 1992hale and heartyHealthy. It's true that she was in the hospital a few weeks ago, but she's hale and hearty now. hale and heartyCliché healthy. The young infant was hale and hearty. The calf—hale and hearty—ran around the barnyard. hale and heartyIn 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] hale and ˈhearty(especially of old people) strong and healthy: She was still hale and hearty in her nineties.hale and heartyHealthy and vigorous. This term, which dates from the mid-nineteenth century, is redundant, since hale and hearty both mean “healthy.” It survived, no doubt, because of its pleasing alliteration. Thomas Hardy used it in The Dynasts (1903): “We be the King’s men, hale and hearty.” |
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