B2idiominformalhealthIELTS-friendly
alive and kicking
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still active and doing well, often when people expected otherwise
Used for people and also for traditions, businesses or ideas. It comes after 'be' or 'still', not before a noun.
In context
My great-grandfather is ninety-five and still alive and kicking.
Street food culture in Hanoi is alive and kicking despite the new shopping malls.
More idioms about health
- a clean bill of healtha doctor's statement, after an examination, that someone is healthy
- a new lease of lifenew energy, or a chance to be active or useful again
- a ripe old agea very old age, reached in good health
- a second windnew energy that lets you continue after you felt too tired
- a shadow of your former selfmuch weaker, thinner or less impressive than before