bill of health
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3.8
- noun
- /bɪl ʌv hɛlθ/
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certificado de salud
- So you get a clean bill of health, like it is safe for you to train.
- a clean bill of health
She, you know, if she had issues, normally the defence do that, but the police actually took the steps to do that and they gave her a clean bill of health.
- She, you know, if she had issues, normally the defence do that, but the police actually took the steps to do that and they gave her a clean bill of health.
Examples
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Cruise got out of the hospital with a clean bill of health, graduated from community college and moved to the dirty South to finish up his degree at Morehouse to be a doctor.
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OK, well, clean bill of health, nothing going on, no pain, no discomfort.
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The doctor gave me and the baby a clean bill of health.
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However, I just saw my doctor, who has given me a clean bill of health.
Blog text (14) -
They gave me a clean bill of health.
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It was a clean bill of health for another year and the news that you still had an ordinary, difficult, precious life.
Fiction book (1993) -
Meanwhile, in the midst of these allegations, the Commonwealth Observer Group, led by Sir Ellis Clarke, gave the election a clean bill of health.
Academic text (1992) -
They spoke to workers who had been fired just as Price Waterhouse auditors gave the plant's employee relations a clean bill of health.
Academic text (2002) -
It might thus surprise you that in Evergrand's most recent annual report, published this spring, it got a clean bill of health from its auditor, Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
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After his last check-up, the doctor assured him with a clean bill of health.
Synonyms
18
3.3
An official statement that a person or thing is healthy and has no serious problems
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
bill + of + health
There is a visible compositional relation: if a learner knows 'bill' as a written statement/document and 'health' as wellbeing, they can infer 'a written statement about health' and plausibly guess 'certificate of health'. However, the phrase is formal/partly idiomatic (and can extend figuratively to approval of projects), so the exact institutional sense and broader uses are not fully predictable to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Bill of health later moved from ships to everyday use: people began to call any paper or report that says a person, project, or organisation is healthy or safe a bill of health. That's why it now also means 'a formal sign of approval or clearance'.