best 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
The audience is out in its best bib and tucker, too.
From Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
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 Emerson, Alice B.
So he must sit and wait till evening came, till a gentleman could put on his best bib and tucker, and then—allons!
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben
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
