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hale and hearty hale and heartyHealthy. It's true that she was in the hospital a few weeks ago, but she's hale and hearty now.See also: and, hale, heartyhale and heartyCliché healthy. The young infant was hale and hearty. The calf—hale and hearty—ran around the barnyard.See also: and, hale, heartyhale and heartyIn robust good health, as in After her long bout with pneumonia, I was glad to see her hale and hearty. This redundant expression, since both hale and hearty here mean "healthy," probably survives owing to its pleasing alliteration. [Mid-1800s] See also: and, hale, heartyhale and ˈhearty (especially of old people) strong and healthy: She was still hale and hearty in her nineties.See also: and, hale, heartyhale and heartyHealthy and vigorous. This term, which dates from the mid-nineteenth century, is redundant, since hale and hearty both mean “healthy.” It survived, no doubt, because of its pleasing alliteration. Thomas Hardy used it in The Dynasts (1903): “We be the King’s men, hale and hearty.”See also: and, hale, hearty |