C2idiomhealthIELTS-friendly
the picture of health
USUK
looking very healthy and full of energy
Usually after 'look' or 'be', often in stories and descriptions. Slightly literary.
In context
After a month by the sea, my grandmother came home looking the picture of health.
He looked the picture of health, so nobody knew how ill he had been.
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- butterflies in your stomacha nervous, fluttering feeling before something important
- get on someone's nervesto annoy someone, especially by doing something again and again
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