tailor-made

tailor-made

1. Of clothing, to have been made specifically for someone by a tailor (and thus fit very well). Wow, they did a great job with the alterations—that gown looks like it was tailor-made for you!
2. By extension, to be ideally suited for someone or something. I've never seen a happier couple than Tom and Anna—it's like they were tailor-made for each other! Don't worry, that math course is tailor-made for students majoring in the arts, so you're not expected to know advanced formulas or anything.
3. slang A cigarette that is machine-made, rather than hand-rolled. Don't you have any tailor-made smokes?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

tailor-made

n. a machine-made cigarette. (From an expression for something, such as an article of clothing, that is custom made.) They used to call these things tailor-made, meaning professionally made, as opposed to homemade.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • be tailor-made
  • tailor
  • have (something) made
  • have it made
  • have made
  • fit (someone) like a glove
  • fit like a glove
  • fit like a glove, to
  • introduce the shoemaker to the tailor
  • becoming on (someone)
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Torrance, CA, January 24, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Tailor-Made Marketing and Advertising has been awarded a Women and Minority Business Enterprise (WMBE) Certification by the California Public Utilities Commission.
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