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• in good fettle — in fine/good ˈfettle idiom (old fashioned, informal) healthy; in good condition • The team is in fine fettle. • Park Foods is in fine fettle af …   Useful english dictionary

• be in good fettle — be in fine/good/excellent/fettle informal old fashioned phrase to be healthy, or to be performing or working well Thesaurus: to be, or to feel healthysynonym …   Useful english dictionary

• fettle — fet|tle [ˈfetl] n [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: fettle to clean, make ready (14 19 centuries)] in fine/good fettle old fashioned healthy or working properly …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• fettle — noun in fine fettle/in good fettle old fashioned healthy or working properly …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Fettle — Fet tle, n. The act of fettling. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. [1913 Webster] {In fine fettle}, in good spirits. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• fine fettle —  Good health or spirits …   A concise dictionary of English slang

• fine — I 1. adjective 1) fine wines Syn: excellent, first class, first rate, great, exceptional, outstanding, quality, superior, splendid, magnificent, exquisite, choice, select, prime, supreme, superb, wonde …   Thesaurus of popular words

• fine — Synonyms and related words: Babylonian, Corinthian, OK, Roger, absolutely, abstruse, accomplished, accurate, acrid, acute, admirable, adulterated, advantageous, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, affable, agreeable, airy, alive and kicking, all… …   Moby Thesaurus

• fettle — [[t]fe̱t(ə)l[/t]] PHRASE: v link PHR, PHR after v If you say that someone or something is in fine fettle, you mean that they are in very good health or condition. [INFORMAL] You seem in fine fettle …   English dictionary

• good shape — Synonyms and related words: aesthetic proportions, anality, apple pie order, beauties, belle tournure, bodily charm, bodily grace, charms, curvaceousness, curves, discipline, eupepsia, fine fettle, fine shape, fine whack, glowing health, good… …   Moby Thesaurus

• fine fettle — Synonyms and related words: anality, apple pie order, discipline, eupepsia, fine shape, fine whack, glowing health, good condition, good constitution, good digestion, good health, good shape, good trim, healthfulness, healthiness, healthy body,… …   Moby Thesaurus