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Good Health

fit as a fiddle Healthy, very fit, in good physical condition. There are several possible derivations of this expression, one ofwhich holds that a properly tuned fiddle looks and sounds so impressive that it is a compliment for a person to be comparedto it. Two other possibilities claim that the original expression was fit as a fiddler in which fiddler was a nickname appliedeither to a boxer with fancy footwork or to the person who played the fiddle at lively Irish dances, most of which lasted fromdusk to dawn without any breaks. In both cases, the fiddler would have to be physically fit and have great stamina to lastthroughout the event. Similar expressions are fine as a fiddle and face made of a fiddle, the latter used to describe someonewho is exceptionally attractive.

I arrived at my destination feeling fit as a fiddle. (Harrington O’Reilly, Fifty Years on the Trail, 1889)

in fine feather See ELATION.

in fine fettle See ELATION.

in the pink In excellent health; robust. This familiar expression, derived as a shortening of the phrase in the pink of condition‘the most perfect state of something, ’ probably developed its current figurative sense as an allusion to the rosy complexionof a healthy person.