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

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

She hoped that Dyckman would take her out to the theater or a dance, and she put on her best bib and tucker, the bib being conspicuously missing.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

"We must look out your best bib and tucker."

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.

I put them all on with my best bib and tucker.

From The Log-Cabin Lady — An Anonymous Autobiography by Unknown