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apple a day
A truncation of the proverb "an apple a day keeps the doctor away," meaning small, healthful everyday habits will help prevent medical problems in the future. People consider me eccentric for my insistence on going for a walk at dawn each morning, but an apple a day, as they say!
apple a day
A small preventive treatment wards off serious problems, as in He exercises regularly-an apple a day is his motto. This idiom shortens the proverb An apple a day keeps the doctor away, first cited about 1630.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Marc | | MAHRHK (French) | French, Catalan, Welsh |
| Quirino | | - | Italian, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Origenes | | - | Ancient Greek |
| Beatriz | | be-ah-TREETH (Spanish), be-ah-TREES (Latin American Spanish), be-a-TREES (Portuguese), be-a-TREESH (Portuguese) | Spanish, Portuguese |
| Willahelm | | - | Ancient Germanic |
| Abimael | | - | Biblical |