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be given a clean bill of health Idiom

a clean bill of health

a good report from the doctor, a good checkup You'll never get a clean bill of health if you eat fat meat!

clean bill of health

(See a clean bill of health)

health nut

a person who eats health foods and does exercises to become healthy Gary is a health nut. He eats fruit and granola, and jogs five to ten kilometers every day.

look the picture of health

be in good health My uncle was looking the picture of health when I saw him last week.

the picture of health

looking very healthy, fit as a fiddle Rick looks very well these days. He's the picture of health.

in the best of health

Idiom(s): in the best of health

Theme: HEALTH - GOOD

very healthy.
• Bill is in the best of health. He eats well and exercises.
• I haven't been in the best of health. I think I have the flu.

give sb a clean bill of health

Idiom(s): give sb a clean bill of health

Theme: MEDICAL

[for a doctor] to pronounce someone well and healthy.
• The doctor gave Sally a clean bill of health.
• I had hoped to be given a clean bill of health, but there was something wrong with my blood test results.

get a clean bill of health

Idiom(s): get a clean bill of health

Theme: MEDICAL

[for someone] to be pronounced healthy by a physician.
• Sally got a clean bill of health from the doctor.
• Now that Sally has a clean bill of health, she can go back to work.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy,

Idiom(s): Early to bed, early to rise(, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.)

Theme: EARLY

A proverb that claims that going to bed early and getting up early is good for you. (Sometimes said to explain why a person is going to bed early. The last part of the saying is sometimes left out.)
• Tom left the party at ten o'clock, saying "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
• I always get up at dawn. After all, early to bed, early to rise.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy w

It means that sleeping well and not staying up late will help you out physically and financially.

be accustomed a apple-pie bill of health

1. To accept a address of acceptable concrete health, as from a doctor's examination. A: "How did your doctor's arrangement go?" B: "Good! I accept clearly been accustomed a apple-pie bill of health!"2. An affirmation that an alignment or action is operating appropriately according to specific standards. Despite accusations that the aggregation was amenable for communicable the lake, it was accustomed a apple-pie bill of bloom by bounded ecology watchdogs. After several years of banking trouble, the aggregation was assuredly accustomed a apple-pie bill of bloom by bread-and-butter analysts.Learn more: bill, clean, given, health, of

clean bill of health, to accept a/be accustomed a

To accept anesthetized a accurate inspection. The appellation comes from the nineteenth-century convenance of arising an absolute bill of health, a certificate active by the authorities and accustomed to the ship’s master, advertence that no communicable diseases existed in the anchorage of embarkation. If there was some affectionate of epidemic, the address accustomed a foul bill of health. Before continued the appellation was transferred to the affirmation that an alone or accumulation or alignment was found, afterwards investigation, to be about sound.Learn more: bill, clean, given, have, of, to

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