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

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)

So he must sit and wait till evening came, till a gentleman could put on his best bib and tucker, and then—allons!

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben

"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 Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher