best bib and tucker

Idioms  

1. One's finest clothes, dressed up, as in The men were told to put on their best bib and tucker for the dinner dance. Although wearing either a bib (frill at front of a man's shirt) or a tucker (ornamental lace covering a woman's neck and shoulders) is obsolete, the phrase survives. [Mid-1700s] For a synonym, see Sunday best.

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best bib and tucker

Melbourne proudly put on its best bib and tucker for the local girl who made good.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yesterday was Sunday and Olga in her best bib and tucker sat out in the sun with Dinky-Dink.

From The Prairie Wife by Harvey Dunn

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

Her hansom is at the door and, arrayed in her best bib and tucker, she is hurrying through the hall when Dysart, who has just come, presents himself.

From April's Lady A Novel by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

I put them all on with my best bib and tucker.

From The Log-Cabin Lady — An Anonymous Autobiography by Unknown

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