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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 |
Aphra | | - | Various |
Ad | | AHT | Dutch, Limburgish |
BÉLa | | BAY-law | Hungarian |
Felicity | | fi-LIS-i-tee | English |
Bedelia | | - | Irish |
Cecilio | | the-THEE-lyo (Spanish), se-SEE-lyo (Latin American Spanish), che-CHEE-lyo (Italian) | Spanish, Portuguese, Italian |