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

"I'll be down as soon as I can get on my best bib and tucker."

From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by Adams, John Wolcott

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

When the attorney came, she had on her "best bib and tucker," and never looked lovelier.

From Octavia The Octoroon by Lee, J. F.

Then yard-arm and yard-arm, the frigate with her canvas canopy of upper sails furled, and the brig in her best bib and tucker, they both filled away and moved side by side.

From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)