in the pink

in the pink idiom
In good health, as in We're glad to hear Bob's in the pink again. In the 1500s pink meant “the embodiment of perfection,” but the current idiom dates only from about 1900.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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