to dress in one’s best bib and tucker
- Fuente de la expresión
- Cambridge Dictionaries Online
- Estructura completa
- to dress in one’s best bib and tucker
- Variantes
- to be dressed (up) to the nines, to be done to the nines, to be togged up to the nines
- Contexto
- He was Andrew Thomas now and embodied all the horrible images the cadence of those four syllables invoked. There was a knock. Scott Boylin, publisher of Ice Blink Press's literary imprint, stood in the doorway dressed in his best bib and tucker.
- Tipo de fuente
- book
- Autor
- Blake Crouch
- Título de la fuente
- Locked doors
- Año
- 2005
- Web
- Corpus of Contemporary Amerian English
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente