apple a day
Physician prevention prescription
An apple a day refers to the proverb "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"—the idea that eating fruit regularly promotes good health.
The phrase often stands alone as shorthand for simple preventive habits: I try to get my apple a day.
Sometimes used ironically when the remedy seems too modest for the problem.
- doctorLicensed medical healer
- healthCondition of body, mind
- fruitEdible plant ovary
- fruit bowlDish holding fresh produce
- orchardFruit tree plantation
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- conventional wisdomearly bird, opposites attract, nice guys finish last, patience, good things come
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- common sayingsproverbs, idioms, cliches, maxims, adages
- food folklorewatermelon seeds, bread crusts, forbidden fruit, magic beans, stone soup
- proverbsproverbs, sayings, maxims, adages, aphorisms
- medical humornurse humor, bedside manner
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Medicine requiring medical authorization
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Daily cigarette box habit
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Human subject research experiment
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