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
But whoever said an apple a day keeps the doctor away was lying.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 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
On stage, Fostekew wishes she could have heard this kind of thing when she was 11 and living on an apple a day.
From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2020
A handful of oatmeal and an apple a day I should call starvation, but he says it was grand for his health.
From The Heather-Moon by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
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