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как огурчик

• КАК ОГУРЧИК (свежий) highly coll

[как + NP; nom only; adv or subj-compl with быть (subj: human)]

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⇒ completely healthy-looking:

- (look <be>) the picture of health;

- (be <look>) fit as a fiddle.

     ♦ [author's usage] [Бургомистр:] Вспомните, кем я был при проклятом драконе? Больным, сумасшедшим. А теперь? Здоров как огурчик (Шварц 2). [В.:] Remember what I was like in the days of the accursed Dragon? I was sick, I was insane. But now I'm as fit as a fiddle (2b).

Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь. — М.: ACT-ПРЕСС КНИГА. С.И. Лубенская. 2004.