alive and kicking

1. Also, alive and well. Alive and alert; living and healthy. For example, John's completely recovered; he's alive and kicking, or You're quite mistaken; our lawyer is alive and well. The first expression, sometimes shortened to live and kicking, originally was used by fishmongers hawking their wares to convince customers of their freshness and has been considered a cliché since about 1850. The variant originated in the 1960s as a denial of someone's reported death.

Example Sentences

But Scotland are still alive and kicking.

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“This case is alive and kicking and the racial profiling and other illegal attacks on the Latino community and the community at large, we’re going to put them to an end.”

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"Here I am three weeks later, still alive and kicking," Mr Fontana added.

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But Gardena Cinema is alive and kicking.

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Sporting romance was alive and kicking in the Spanish capital.

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