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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.

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Leapolitan responded by saying, “hopefully youll [sic] bite into a poison apple.”
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He added: “People say he deserves his day in court… Do we have enough time?”
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For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.
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“We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.
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Gunshots rang out in Paris this morning on a second day of deadly violence that has stunned the French capital.
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The afternoon was a lovely one—the day was a perfect example of the mellowest mood of autumn.
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Edna did not reveal so much as all this to Madame Ratignolle that summer day when they sat with faces turned to the sea.
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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith.
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The proceedings of the day commenced with divine service, performed by Unitarian and Baptist ministers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various