neat as a pin
Example Sentences
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When Hamlet was home from Haggard tours, he’d visit Petree at his home, where everything was always neat as a pin.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2022
Of what was labeled, correctly, as Matsuzawa: “Faceless, typewriter, neat as a pin but utterly flaccid performances with small, tiny poetic gestures added like so much rouge on the face of a Russian doll.”
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2021
Many are kept neat as a pin, but no amount of care can save wooden boards from rotting or water from seeping through mattresses, blankets or anything else that touches the floor.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2017
The group who performed in the messy room showed significantly greater creativity than the group in the room that was neat as a pin.
From Forbes • Aug. 13, 2014
He sits in the darkened drafting room, surrounded by the desks of his coworkers, some piled with drawings and models, others as neat as a pin.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
