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View synonyms for best bib and tucker

best bib and tucker



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Idioms and Phrases

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either a bib (frill at front of a man's shirt) or a tucker (ornamental lace covering a woman's neck and shoulders) is obsolete, the phrase survives.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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Example Sentences

But she's got on her best bib-and-tucker to-day, and a pinafore with frills to it.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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