best 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 audience is out in its best bib and tucker, too.
From Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various
The little front garden, in its white-sanded walks and well-weeded beds, brilliant in many-hued blossoms, was just like a spruce country-damsel in her best bib and tucker.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
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