bib and tucker
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If you wanted to tell a city clerk from a blacksmith, especially when they were both in their best bib and tucker, all you needed to do was sidle up and sniff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
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 Ernest Poole
"And with its best bib and tucker on, if I am any judge of la toilette," said Lionel.
From A Heart-Song of To-day by Annie Gregg Savigny
There the town often goes in its best bib and tucker to hear the lecturers whom Mrs. Markley feeds.
From In Our Town by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger
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