"Hey how are you today?"
"Peachy keen jelly bean!"
"......What the fuck does that mean?"
"Um... it means i'm fine...?"
"Why didn't you just say that instead of that retarded phrase that means nothing?"
"Because... I thought I was being cool.. or cute.. or something..."
"Well you were just being stupid... stupid."
"Sorry...."
Has this happened to you? Why do people say stuff like this??? I mean seriously? How can a peach be keen? It's a fruit! And why the fuck are you calling me a jelly bean?? And how does being keen make you fruitish? I DON'T UNDERSTAND!
"Are you feeling okay?"
"Oh i'm fit as a fiddle!"
".... in what way are you like a fiddle?"
"Um... i'm fit.. like one?"
"How is a fiddle fit????" XD
"....."
Seriously?? Who came up with phrases like this? Where does a fiddle fit? And how can someone mimic that? I DON'T UNDERSTAND!!
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As fit as a fiddle
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Very fit and well.
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Of course the 'fiddle' here is the colloquial name for violin. 'Fit' didn't originally mean healthy and energetic, in the sense it is often used nowadays to describe the inhabitants of gyms. When this phrase was coined 'fit' was used to mean 'suitable, seemly', in the way we now might say 'fit for purpose'.
Thomas Dekker, in The batchelars banquet, 1603 referred to 'as fine as a fiddle':
"Then comes downe mistresse Nurse as fine as a farthing fiddle, in her petticoate and kertle."
Not long afterwards, in 1616, there's W. Haughton's English-men for my Money, which includes:
"This is excellent ynfayth [in faith], as fit as a fiddle."
--That's the closest thing I could find to an explanation. I hope it eases your frustration. If not, I suggest vigorous masturbation. Preferably in front of the perpetrators expressing such annoying phrases.