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fountain_of_youth

fountain of youth

See also: Fountain of Youth

English

Noun

fountain of youth (plural fountains of youth)

  1. (idiomatic) Anything reputed to have the power to restore health and vitality or to restore a youthful appearance.
    Just watching the advertisement, you'd think the face cream was a fountain of youth.
    • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
      Who has not known some even-tempered old man or woman who seemed to have drunk of the fountain of youth?

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