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bill of health

noun

  1. a certificate, carried by a ship, attesting to the presence or absence of infectious diseases among the ship's crew and at the port from which it has come.


bill of health

noun

  1. a certificate, issued by a port officer, that attests to the health of a ship's company
  2. clean bill of health informal.
    1. a good report of one's physical condition
    2. a favourable account of a person's or a company's financial position
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of bill of health1

First recorded in 1635鈥45
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. clean bill of health, an attestation of fitness or qualification; a commendation:

    The investigating committee gave him a clean bill of health.

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But whether USC will have a clean bill of health by then remains to be seen.

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She steadily improved and within a year got a clean bill of health.

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Mr. Slayman was discharged from the hospital two weeks after his surgery, with 鈥渙ne of the cleanest bills of health I鈥檝e had in a long time,鈥 he said at the time.

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"We haven't given Israel a clean bill of health - Israel's performance on aid has not been good enough."

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Thursday and again Friday morning before getting a clean enough bill of health to take part in everything Saturday.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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