Bristol fashion

American  

adjective

1. in good order; trim.

   shipshape and Bristol fashion.

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Bristol fashion British  

adverb

1. nautical clean and neat, with newly painted and scrubbed surfaces, brass polished, etc

2. in good order; efficiently arranged

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Etymology

Origin of Bristol fashion

1830–40; after Bristol, England

Example Sentences

“Well, looks like everything’s mostly shipshape and Bristol fashion, luvvy,” said Miss Forcible.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

There was no foolish gilding and gingerbread work, to take the eye of landsmen and passengers, but everything was "ship-shape and Bristol fashion."

From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry

The whole settlement turned out, Iosefo outdoing himself, and the king butting in with an address, and everything shipshape and Bristol fashion, as sailors say.

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd

When we lay over her, all shipshape an' Bristol fashion, then we'll look about for that there Pirate Shark.

From The Pirate Shark by Arting, Fred J.

We slept Bristol fashion, with one eye open.

From The Mayor of Troy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir