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hale and hearty
Healthy. It's true that she was in the hospital a few weeks ago, but she's hale and hearty now.
party hearty
To engage in a very lively, raucous celebration. I've been busting my hump all week studying for my exams on Friday, so I'm going to party hearty after they're all done! I know she partied hearty on Sunday for her birthday, so she might not be in the best form this morning.
hale and hearty
Cliché healthy. The young infant was hale and hearty. The calf—hale and hearty—ran around the barnyard.
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]
hale and ˈhearty
(especially of old people) strong and healthy: She was still hale and hearty in her nineties.party hearty
and party down in. to have a great time; to celebrate. (Also as an exclamation: Party down!) The whole class decided to celebrate and party hearty. Let’s party down, dudes!
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.”