apple-pie order
Example Sentences
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That exertion was easy compared with getting the farm in apple-pie order.
From Architectural Digest • Jun. 9, 2015
After settling everything in apple-pie order in a mad hurry, they wait for hours for the colonel to make his appearance and see if the buttons are polished.
From Time Magazine Archive
With his political credentials in apple-pie order, he was rewarded by the usually cautious critics with an instantaneous rave.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everything was going to be in apple-pie order.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was carrying the fighting harness, which was strapped up in apple-pie order according to his own dodges and wrinkles—for, from now on, he was Lancelot’s squire.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
