healthy as a horse |
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| Lexical unit types: | simile |
| Topics: | people: appearance |
| Source domains: | animals |
| Particles: | - |
| Similes: | as |
| Verbs: | - |
| CEFR Levels: | - | Synomyms: | - | Antonyms: | - | Definition: | having excellent physical health | Examples: |
I am healthy as a horse. She’s 80 and healthy as a horse.
Croatian: zdrav kao dren |
Motivation: |
the conceptual metaphor PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS Kövecses, Zoltán. 2010. Metaphor: A Practical Introduction. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Slične leksičke jedinice: strong as an ox, fresh as a daisy, blind as a bat, from head to toe, white as snow, white as a sheet, pretty as a picture, red as blood, smile from ear to ear, black as night