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English Idioms :: hale and hearty
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halequin.html - {adj. phr.} In very good health; well and strong. * /Grandfather will be 80 years old tomorrow, but he is hale and hearty./ * /That little boy looks hale and hearty, as if he is never sick./ |
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Traditional English :: hale(1)
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halequin.html - adj. (esp. of an old person) strong and healthy (esp. in hale and hearty). haleness n. [OE hal WHOLE] |
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Traditional English :: hale(2)
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halequin.html - v.tr.
drag or draw forcibly. [ME f. OF haler f. ON hala] |
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English Idioms :: hale and hearty
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halequin.html - {adj. phr.} In very good health; well and strong. * /Grandfather will be 80 years old tomorrow, but he is hale and hearty./ * /That little boy looks hale and hearty, as if he is never sick./ |
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English Idioms :: half
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halequin.html - See: GO HALVES, GO OFF HALF-COCKED also GO OFF AT HALF COCK, IN HALF, SIX OF ONE AND HALF-A-DOZEN OF THE OTHER, TIME AND A HALF, TOO-BY HALF. |
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English Idioms :: half a loaf is better than no bread
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halequin.html - Part of what we want or need is better than nothing. - A proverb. * /Albert wanted two dollars for shoveling snow from the sidewalk but the lady would only give him a dollar. And he said that half a loaf is better than none./ Compare: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. |
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