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
"Sure, child; wear your best bib and tucker, if you like, but I like you better in your play-clothes."
From Marjorie at Seacote by Wells, Carolyn
The malicious rumor, by-the-way, which declared that she wore a bib and tucker at the time of Jackson’s war with the United States Bank, was wickedly false.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 by Various
You have determined that the three Bards shall walk up Parnassus, in their best bib and tucker.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph
"We must look out your best bib and tucker."
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.
