apple-pie order

Example Sentences

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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 Literature

That need to have everything in apple-pie order doesn’t reconcile with a spaceship that acts like a toddler when it chooses to act at all, “squealing, puking, dumping, and stealing.”

From Los Angeles Times

The identity of their opponents means this is more than a mere box-ticking exercise but, similarly to several others, the primary interest around Chelsea now is in establishing apple-pie order for their incoming manager Antonio Conte.

From The Guardian

That exertion was easy compared with getting the farm in apple-pie order.

From Architectural Digest

Everything was in apple-pie order and ready for inspection.

From Project Gutenberg