hale and hearty
Healthy. It's true that she was in the hospital a few weeks ago, but she's hale and hearty now. A: "How's our little guy?" B: "The pediatrician was very pleased with his growth. She says he's hale and hearty!" I did break my foot over the summer, but I'm hale and hearty now.
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hale and hearty
Cliché healthy. The young infant was hale and hearty. The calf—hale and hearty—ran around the barnyard.
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hale and hearty
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]
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hale and ˈhearty
(especially of old people) strong and healthy: She was still hale and hearty in her nineties.Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
hale and hearty
Healthy 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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