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
"We must look out your best bib and tucker."
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Charles W. Wood
All the family wore their best bib and tucker, and even Stepan Mihailovitch was forced to smarten himself up.
From A Russian Gentleman by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov
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 Alice B. Emerson
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