In good health: “Marsha has recovered from the flu and is feeling in the pink again.”
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In the Pink
An informal expression used to describe a situation in which an investor or an economy is in a good financial position. More generally, it refers to being in the best of health or condition.
Investopedia Commentary
Blue chip stocks and healthy economies are examples of in-the-pink (or rosy) financial positions.
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See also: Blue Chip, Boom, Bull Market, Large Cap, Mega Cap
Also spelled: in-the-pink
in the pink
In good health, as in We're glad to hear Bob's in the pink again. In the 1500s pink meant "the embodiment of perfection," but the current idiom dates only from about 1900.