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
She wore a bib and tucker, and pinafore, with a bouncing propriety, fit to make the boldest spectator alarmed at the idea of bringing such a household responsibility on his shoulders.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 by Various
Hilarion: In my mind's eye, I mean — a blushing bride All bib and tucker, frill and furbelow!
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
Jupiter might as soon keep awake when Juno came in best bib and tucker, and with the cestus of Venus, to get him to sleep.
From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
She says of herself, "I was born with a boy's spirit under my bib and tucker," and she never lost it.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert
