hale and hearty

comparative more hale and hearty · superlative most hale and hearty · alternative hale and hardy

1. idiomaticIn a state of robust good health.

   Three of the four are hale and hearty today, and it is doubtful they have forgotten a single detail of that event.

   1997, Arthur March, Franconia and Sugar Hill, page n.a.

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   He was a hale and hearty man at that time, and remained hale and hearty for many years afterwards; so hale and hearty, that in the year 1798, being then turned seventy-eight, and having lived in America ten years, he married a young woman of Scottish extraction

   1869 November 27, “Pretenders”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, page 613

   Now, at almost 90, he is hale and hearty, full of recollections, and retains a keen interest in life—a truly remarkable character and a great gentleman of the footplate.

   1959 April 28, L. H. Leedham, “A Veteran of the M.S.L.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 279

2. idiomaticnutritionConducive to robust good health.

   This is a hale and hearty dish, filled with beef, potatoes and carrots.