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

Nature appears to have on her best bib and tucker for the occasion.

From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto

You have determined that the three Bards shall walk up Parnassus, in their best bib and tucker.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph

Then yard-arm and yard-arm, the frigate with her canvas canopy of upper sails furled, and the brig in her best bib and tucker, they both filled away and moved side by side.

From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

Last night I decked myself in my best bib and tucker, and, in defiance of all precedent, went down to his apartment.

From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir