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 was listening to every word you said, and I've got my best bib and tucker in that hand box.
From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy
"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
She says of herself, "I was born with a boy's spirit under my bib and tucker," and she never lost it.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert
The little front garden, in its white-sanded walks and well-weeded beds, brilliant in many-hued blossoms, was just like a spruce country-damsel in her best bib and tucker.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
