| 单词 | as sound as a roach |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas sound as a (also†any) roach as sound as a (also†any) roach: in good health; very fit or sound. Now archaic.Apparently from the belief that the roach was insusceptible to disease. [Perhaps after French plus sain qu'un gardon in good or excellent health, lit. ‘healthier than a roach’ (1545 in Middle French).] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > healthy wholeeOE isoundOE i-sundfulc1000 ferec1175 soundc1175 fish-wholea1225 forthlyc1230 steadfasta1300 wella1300 safec1300 tidya1325 halec1330 quartc1330 well-faringc1330 well-tempered1340 well-disposeda1398 wealyc1400 furnished1473 mighty?a1475 quartful?c1475 good1527 wholesomea1533 crank1548 healthful1550 healthy1552 hearty1552 healthsome1563 well-affected?1563 disposed1575 as sound as a bell1576 firm1577 well-conditioned1580 sound1605 unvaletudinary1650 all right1652 valid1652 as sound as a (alsoany) roach1655 fair-like1663 hoddy1664 wanton1674 stout?1697 trig1704 well-hained1722 sprack1747 caller1754 sane1755 finely1763 bobbish1780 cleverly1784 right1787 smart1788 fine1791 eucratic1795 nobbling1825 as right as a trivet1835 first rate1841 in fine, good, high, etc., feather1844 gay1855 sprackish1882 game ball1905 abled1946 well-toned1952 a hundred per cent1960 oke1960 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xix. 186 Roches..are esteemed and thought uncapable of any disease, according to the old Proverb, As sound as a Roch. 1667 Second Advice in Second & Third Advice to Painter 7 Till some juditious Dolphin might approach, And land him safe and sound as any Roach. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical xi. 135 My Father..turn'd of Seventy, and as yet he's as sound as a Roach still. a1732 J. Gay New Song Similes in Poet. Wks. (1784) II. 116 Hearts, sound as any bell or roach. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 297 My health is capital—constitution ditto—sound as a roach. 1895 ‘F. Anstey’ Lyre & Lancet ix. 92 Sickly..? Not a bit of it—sound as a roach! 1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier ii. ii. 116 She had got it into her head that Leonora, who was as sound as a roach, was consumptive. 1991 R. Anderson Paper Faces xiv. 79 I'm fit as a fiddle..and sound as a roach. < as lemmas |
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