In the pink

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to be in the pink means being healthy, as opposed to be as white as a sheet, id est, being pale.

Sarah,
No, you can't use it in this way. Generally you use the expression when talking about a third person who is looking well ie., he's in the pink.

ok i got that idiom thnx mauren

in the pink (old-fashioned, informal) in good health


in the pink
informal + old-fashioned : in very good health
▪ Regular exercise helped to keep her in the pink (of good health).

In the Pink -- The image what I see in my mind from reading it -- good, healthy, plump person with pink rosy cheeks!

a good idiom





thanks

Thanks for the idiom

Cool! It's opposite to "to feel blue".

_sahra_ said:

So can we use such " in the pink ";

- How are you ?
- I am in the pink, you ?

like this...

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yes... you could say it that way. It can be used for the first person, second person or third person. It is a bit old fashioned tough and is not used much in Canadian English.

A similar idiom would be "on the right side of the daisies".

"You are looking fine today!", she said.

" Yeah, at least I'm on the right side of the daisies." he replied

Perhaps the boy was feeling very sick for a while and the girl is commenting on his looking healthy. The boy's reply is a humourous way of saying that he is still alive. The idiom comes from the fact that daises are often used as flowers on a grave. If you are dead you are buried under the daisies but if you are alive you are above the daisies. So "being on the right side of the daisies" means you haven't died yet.