one's best bib and tucker

(one's) best bib and tucker

One's dressiest or most formal attire. A "bib" and a "tucker" are outdated clothing embellishments. Be sure to wear your best bib and tucker to the gala tonight.

one's best bib and tucker

Rur. one's best clothing. I always put on my best bib and tucker on Sundays. Put on your best bib and tucker, and let's go to the city.

best bib and tucker, one's

Dressed in one’s finest clothes. A tucker was an ornamental piece of lace worn by women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to cover the neck and shoulders. A bib was either a fancy frill worn at the front of a man’s shirt or an actual formal shirt front. Their pairing with best dates from the mid-eighteenth century. The word bib appeared in print in America in 1795: “The old gentleman put on his best bib and band [i.e., collar]” (The Art of Courting, Newburyport, Massachusetts). A later locution, dating from the mid-nineteenth century, is one’s Sunday best, also known as Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. It refers to an era when one’s finery was reserved for church (or “prayer meeting”). These Americanisms sound archaic today. See also gussied up.

词组	one's best bib and tucker
释义	one's best bib and tucker (one's) best bib and tucker One's dressiest or most formal attire. A "bib" and a "tucker" are outdated clothing embellishments. Be sure to wear your best bib and tucker to the gala tonight. See also: and, bib, tucker Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. one's best bib and tucker Rur. one's best clothing. I always put on my best bib and tucker on Sundays. Put on your best bib and tucker, and let's go to the city. See also: and, bib, tucker McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. best bib and tucker, one's Dressed in one’s finest clothes. A tucker was an ornamental piece of lace worn by women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to cover the neck and shoulders. A bib was either a fancy frill worn at the front of a man’s shirt or an actual formal shirt front. Their pairing with best dates from the mid-eighteenth century. The word bib appeared in print in America in 1795: “The old gentleman put on his best bib and band [i.e., collar]” (The Art of Courting, Newburyport, Massachusetts). A later locution, dating from the mid-nineteenth century, is one’s Sunday best, also known as Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. It refers to an era when one’s finery was reserved for church (or “prayer meeting”). These Americanisms sound archaic today. See also gussied up. See also: and, bib The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: (one's) best bib and tucker best bib and tucker bib tucker your best bib and tucker best bib and tucker, one's best tucker out tuckered out attire in
随便看	round on round out round peg in a square hole, a round robin round Robin Hood's barn round (someone or something) up round table round the bend round the bend/twist round the clock round the twist round to round trip round tripper run around in circles run around in circles, to run around like a blue-arsed fly run around like a chicken with its head cut off run around like a chicken with its head cut off and run in circles run around like a headless chicken run around with run around with (someone) run as run as fast as (one's) legs can carry (one) run as (something)