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hale and hearty en · ADJ
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(idiomatic) In a state of robust good health.
Three of the four are hale and hearty today, and it is doubtful they have forgotten a single detail of that event.
1997, Arthur March, Franconia and Sugar Hill, page n.a.:Now, at almost 90, he is hale and hearty, full of recollections, and retains a keen interest in life—a truly remarkable character and a great gentleman of the footplate.
1959 April 14, L. H. Leedham, “A Veteran of the M.S.L.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 279:He was a hale and hearty man at that time, and remained hale and hearty for many years afterwards; so hale and hearty, that in the year 1798, being then turned seventy-eight, and having lived in America ten years, he married a young woman of Scottish extraction
1869 November 27, “Pretenders”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, page 613:
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(idiomatic, qualifier:nutrition) Conducive to robust good health.
This is a hale and hearty dish, filled with beef, potatoes and carrots.
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hale and heartily · hale and heartiness