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apple a day

Idioms

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.

Example Sentences

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This simple at-home treatment is as commonplace as an apple a day.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2025

But whoever said an apple a day keeps the doctor away was lying.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2024

If one apple a day is not enough to make us healthy, what about eating two or three?

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2023

An apple a day keeps the doctor away : This well-known statement is based on an 1860s Welsh proverb that eating apples will diminish doctor visits.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2019

There is an old saying and a good one, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

From How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves" by Hinkle, Thomas C. (Thomas Clark)

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