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fit like a glove

Be the right size and well suited; also, be in conformity with. For example, That position fits him like a glove. Tobias Smollett used this simile, rather incongruously, in Humphry Clinker (1771): “The boots ... fitted me like a glove.” [Second half of 1700s] Also see to a T.

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Nearby words

fistulotomy, fistulous, fit, fit as a fiddle, fit in, fit like a glove, fit note, fit out, fit to be tied, fit to kill, fit up
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