bib and tucker
Example Sentences
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Melbourne proudly put on its best bib and tucker for the local girl who made good.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'll be down as soon as I can get on my best bib and tucker."
From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by Adams, John Wolcott
Jupiter might as soon keep awake, when Juno came in best bib and tucker, and with the cestus of Venus, to get him to sleep.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various
When the attorney came, she had on her "best bib and tucker," and never looked lovelier.
From Octavia The Octoroon by Lee, J. F.
There the town often goes in its best bib and tucker to hear the lecturers whom Mrs. Markley feeds.
From In Our Town by Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo
