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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 .Advertisement
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