“As fit as a fiddle” ‘Fiddle' here is the colloquial name for a violin. ‘Fit’ didn’t originally mean healthy, in the sense it is nowadays often used to describe the gym-goers but was used to mean ‘suitable’ or ‘seemly’, similar to the way we now might say ‘fit for purpose’. “It ain't over till the … Continue reading Origins of phrases 1: Music
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