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

The town will put it in headlines at once, and with it a picture of yourself in your best bib and tucker, looking as though you loved the whole world.

From His Family by Poole, Ernest

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

And most of them even in their best bib and tucker were not out of the picture.

From Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point by Emerson, Alice B.

There the town often goes in its best bib and tucker to hear the lecturers whom Mrs. Markley feeds.

From In Our Town by Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo