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
Vakhtang	-	Georgian
ÇElİK	-	Turkish
Zlata	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Czech, Slovak, Russian
Avril	av-REEL (French), AV-ril (English)	French (Rare), English (Rare)
Parveen	-	Persian
Fulvio	FOOL-vyo	Italian