n.
United States anarchist influential before World War I (1854-1939)

one's best bib and tucker Idiom, Proverb

tuckered out

short of breath, panting, puffing Timmy was tuckered out after jogging with his father.

best bib and tucker

Idiom(s): best bib and tucker

Theme: CLOTHING

one's best clothing. (Folksy. Fixed order.)
• 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.

all tuckered out

Idiom(s): (all) tuckered out

Theme: EXHAUSTION

tired out; worn out. (Folksy.)
• Poor John worked so hard that he's all tuckered out.
• Look at that little baby sleeping. She's really tuckered out.

best bib and tucker|Sunday|Sunday best|Sunday go t

n. phr., informal Best clothes or outfit of clothing. The cowboy got all dressed up in his best bib and tucker to go to the dance. Mary went to the party in her Sunday best and made a hit with the boys.
Compare: GLAD RAGS.

tucker

tucker
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(one's) best bib and tucker

One's dressiest or best academic attire. A "bib" and a "tucker" are anachronous accouterment embellishments. Be abiding to abrasion your best bib and tucker to the bright tonight.Learn more: and, bib, tucker

one's best bib and tucker

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

best bib and tucker, one's

Dressed in one’s finest clothes. A tucker was an accessory allotment of applique beat by women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to awning the close and shoulders. A bib was either a adorned amenity beat at the advanced of a man’s shirt or an absolute academic shirt front. Their bond with best dates from the mid-eighteenth century. The chat bib appeared in book in America in 1795: “The old admirer put on his best bib and bandage [i.e., collar]” (The Art of Courting, Newburyport, Massachusetts). A after locution, dating from the mid-nineteenth century, is one’s Sunday best, also accepted as Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. It refers to an era back one’s finery was aloof for abbey (or “prayer meeting”). These Americanisms complete ancient today. Learn added gussied up.Learn more: and, bib

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