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КАК ОГУРЧИК (свежий) highly coll (как + NP nom only adv or subj-compl with бытье (subj: human) completely healthy-looking: (look (be)) the picture of health (be (look)) fit as a fiddle.

(author's usage) (Бургомистр:) Вспомните, кем я был при проклятом драконе? Больным, сумасшедшим. А теперь? Здоров как огурчик (Шварц 2). (В.:) Remember what I was like in the days of the accursed Dragon? I was sick, I was insane. But now I'm as fit as a fiddle (2b).