hale and hearty

English

hale and hearty (comparative more hale and hearty, superlative most hale and hearty)

(idiomatic) In a state of robust good health.
- 1869 November 27, “Pretenders”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, page 613:
  He was a hale and hearty man at that time, and remained hale and hearty for many years afterwards; so hale and hearty, that in the year 1798, being then turned seventy-eight, and having lived in America ten years, he married a young woman of Scottish extraction
- 1997, Arthur March, Franconia and Sugar Hill‎, page n.a.:
  Three of the four are hale and hearty today, and it is doubtful they have forgotten a single detail of that event.
(idiomatic, nutrition) Conducive to robust good health.
This is a hale and hearty dish, filled with beef, potatoes and carrots.