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fit as a fiddle
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very healthy and strong
Often 'as fit as a fiddle', and often about older people. A fiddle is a violin.
In context
My grandmother is ninety, but she's still as fit as a fiddle.
He had a cold last week, but now he's fit as a fiddle again.
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