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
All the family wore their best bib and tucker, and even Stepan Mihailovitch was forced to smarten himself up.
From A Russian Gentleman by Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)
The town will put it in headlines at once, and with it a picture of yourself in your best bib and tucker, looking as though you loved the whole world.
From His Family by Poole, Ernest
She wore a bib and tucker, and pinafore, with a bouncing propriety, fit to make the boldest spectator alarmed at the idea of bringing such a household responsibility on his shoulders.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 by Various
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
