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apple a day

Idioms  
  1. 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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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

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

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2023

Researchers did find that apple eaters were a bit less likely to require prescription medications compared to non-apple-eaters, leading the researcher to joke that “an apple a day keeps the pharmacist away.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2019

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away," he enlightened Mrs. Babbitt, for quite the first time in fourteen hours.

From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair

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