be alive and well/kicking
C2 to continue to live or exist and be full of energy:
She said she'd seen him last week and he was alive and kicking.
C2 to continue to be popular or successful:
Despite rumours to the contrary, feminism is alive and well.
Traditional jazz is still alive and kicking in New Orleans.
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Energetic and lively
- a spring in your step idiom
- alive
- barnstorming
- be as fresh as a daisy idiom
- be full of beans idiom
- bounce
- frolicsome
- fury
- go-getter
- high-spirited
- indefatigable
- irrepressible
- lively
- playful
- refreshing
- spry
- supercharged
- tear into sth
- throw yourself into sth
- tireless
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