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
We've all heard that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but how true is that?
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2023
An apple a day keeps the doctor away : This well-known statement is based on an 1860s Welsh proverb that eating apples will diminish doctor visits.
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 Sinclair Lewis
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