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	Pronounced	Usage
Bent (1)	BENT	Danish
Biagino	-	Italian
Ume	oo-me	Japanese
Domitius	-	Ancient Roman
Vasylyna	-	Ukrainian
Serena	sə-REEN-ə (English), se-RE-nah (Italian)	English, Italian, Late Roman