Sunday best

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noun

one's best clothes, esp regarded as those most suitable for churchgoing

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Words nearby Sunday best

sun dance, Sundanese, Sunda Strait, Sunday, Sunday baby, Sunday best, Sunday clothes, Sunday driver, Sunday-go-to-meeting, Sunday Morning, Sunday painter

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The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.
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Strangio is at his best when exposing what appears to be a flourishing civil society in Cambodia.
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Her style, much like her diminutive nickname, is best described as “Hamptons twee”—preppy and peppy.
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Perhaps on his own nowadays, Epstein is trying his best to webmaster over a dozen URLs.
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Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.
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We resolved to do our best to merit the good opinion which we thus supposed them to entertain of us.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
He is perplexed and hindered by the lack of soldiers, but is doing his best with his small forces.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
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Her best-known works are portrait busts, which are numerous.
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But the Mexicans were not the people to give up their best province so easily.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various

Idioms and Phrases with Sunday best

Sunday best

One's finest clothes, as in They were all in their Sunday best for the photographer. This expression alludes to reserving one's best clothes for going to church; indeed, an older idiom is Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes (meeting here meaning “prayer meeting”). [Mid-1800s]

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