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"ref": "1598, [William Haughton], English-men for My Money: Or, a Pleasant Comedy, Called, A Woman will Haue Her Will, London: Imprinted at London by W[illiam] White, dwelling in Cow-lane, published 1616, →OCLC",
"text": "This is excellent ynfayth, as fit as a Fiddle: […]",
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"ref": "1915 September 3, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 2, in Something New (Project Gutenberg; EBook #2042), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 6 September 2008 (Project Gutenberg version), →OCLC",
"text": "You wake up, feeling as fit as a fiddle; you look at the window and see the sun, and thank Heaven for a fine day.",
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"ref": "2008 April 10, Alexander Jung, Christoph Pauly, “Crashing the party of Icelandic prosperity”, in Spiegel Online, archived from the original on 2015-01-08",
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"word": "fit as a butcher's dog"
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{
"word": "fit as a flea"
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{
"word": "in fine fettle"
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"word": "right as a trivet"
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{
"word": "sound as a bell"
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"word": "sound in wind and limb"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "frisk som en fisk"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "frisk som en havørn"
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"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "fit als een hoentje"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "kiplekker"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "elämänsä kunnossa"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "terve kuin pukki"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "frais comme un gardon"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "estar en boa forma"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "fit wie ein Turnschuh"
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"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "kerngesund"
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"note": "בָּרִיא כַּשּׁוֹר m (barí kasshór, literally “healthy as a bull”)",
"sense": "perfectly fit"
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "egészséges, mint a makk"
},
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "makkegészséges"
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"word": "stálsleginn"
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"word": "bráðhress"
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"word": "sano come un pesce"
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"word": "frisk som en fisk"
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"word": "frisk som ein fisk"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "zdrów jak ryba"
},
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "zdrów jak koń"
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"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "kao puška"
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"note": "zdrav kao dren (respective to health; literally “healthy as a dogwood”)",
"sense": "perfectly fit"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "frisk som en nötkärna"
},
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"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "lesaunik"
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"text": "This is excellent ynfayth, as fit as a Fiddle: […]",
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"text": "You wake up, feeling as fit as a fiddle; you look at the window and see the sun, and thank Heaven for a fine day.",
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},
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"ref": "2008 April 10, Alexander Jung, Christoph Pauly, “Crashing the party of Icelandic prosperity”, in Spiegel Online, archived from the original on 2015-01-08",
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"word": "fit as a flea"
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{
"word": "in fine fettle"
},
{
"word": "right as a trivet"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "frisk som en fisk"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "frisk som en havørn"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "fit als een hoentje"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "kiplekker"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "elämänsä kunnossa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "terve kuin pukki"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "frais comme un gardon"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "estar en boa forma"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "fit wie ein Turnschuh"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "kerngesund"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"note": "בָּרִיא כַּשּׁוֹר m (barí kasshór, literally “healthy as a bull”)",
"sense": "perfectly fit"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "egészséges, mint a makk"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "makkegészséges"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stálhraustur"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stálsleginn"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bráðhress"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sano come un pesce"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "frisk som en fisk"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "frisk som ein fisk"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "zdrów jak ryba"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "zdrów jak koń"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "здоров, как бык (zdorov, kak byk, literally “healthy as a bull”)",
"sense": "perfectly fit"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "kao puška"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"note": "zdrav kao dren (respective to health; literally “healthy as a dogwood”)",
"sense": "perfectly fit"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "frisk som en nötkärna"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "perfectly fit",
"word": "lesaunik"
}
],
"word": "fit as a fiddle"
}
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