alive and kicking

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Also, alive and well . Alive and alert; living and healthy. For example, John's completely recovered; he's alive and kicking , or You're quite mistaken; our lawyer is alive and well . The first expression, sometimes shortened to live and kicking , originally was used by fishmongers hawking their wares to convince customers of their freshness and has been considered a cliché since about 1850. The variant originated in the 1960s as a denial of someone's reported death.

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