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
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
Since then, imagination has been at play; and, in accordance with its suggestions, his bib and tucker have been donned, as trusty adjutants to the formidable wooden spoon.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various
Nature appears to have on her best bib and tucker for the occasion.
From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto
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
