best 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
At four o'clock Andy and Hortense, in their best bib and tucker and with clean smiling faces, knocked at the door of the little cottage beyond the orchard where lived Fergus and Mary.
From The Cat in Grandfather's House by Grabo, Carl Henry
Tell him you are a-going to put on your best bib and tucker and it'll start the notion in him to keep you company.
From The Road to Providence by Daviess, Maria Thompson
Presently Monsieur Station Master, and Madame Station Master, and little Station Master fils appeared, each in best bib and tucker, and led the way across the fields, to a little thatched farmhouse two miles distant.
From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur
