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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.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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