an apple a day
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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
“Our ancestors, always hurried,” she writes in “Angel in the Forest,” “left little evidence of their existence, if one discounts intangibles, a sundial, an apple a day, an angel in the forest.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024
She was obsessed with the taste, appreciated the nutrition and certainly believed in the phrase, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."
From Salon • Oct. 5, 2021
“I’m eating an apple a day to keep Ben Carson away and, by apple, I mean pure human growth hormones” she said.
From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2016
Just now we are trying to increase the consumption of apples, to lead the people to eat an apple a day: it cannot be accomplished by customary commercial methods.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
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