alive and kicking

Idioms  

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.

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Example Sentences

Dude-bro culture is alive and kicking, especially in a highly energized manosphere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

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

From BBC • May 25, 2025

In other words mRNA-recipes of certain proteins show that the viruses are alive and kicking.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024

I thought you had the royals and a few barons with meaningless titles, but actually there’s still aristocrats who are very much alive and kicking in the U.K.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024

In the mornings Dad handed us the comics out of the paper and flipped over to the obituaries just to make sure everyone we knew was still alive and kicking.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

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