best bib and tucker, one's Idioma

a stone's throw

a short distance, 25 metres A deer came into the yard, just a stone's throw from our door.

back on one's feet

physically healthy again My mother is back on her feet again after being sick with the flu for two weeks.

ball is in someone's court

be someone else's move or turn The ball was in the union's court after the company made their final offer.

beat one's brains out

try very hard to understand or do something.

blow one's top

become extremely angry.

break someone's heart

make someone feel very disappointed/discouraged/sad.

breathe one's last

to die The man finally breathed his last after a long illness.

by the skin of one's teeth

barely succeed in doing something.

card up one's sleeve

another plan or argument saved for later I thought that the negotiations would be unsuccessful but my boss had another card up his sleeve that we didn't know about.

catch one's death of cold

become very ill (with a cold, flu etc) The little boy was told to be careful in the rain or he would catch his death of cold.

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

Sunday best

one's best clothing, which one would abrasion to church. (Learn added Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.) We are in our Sunday best, accessible to go. I got mud on my Sunday best.Learn more: Sunday

best bib and tucker

One's finest clothes, dressed up, as in The men were told to put on their best bib and tucker for the banquet dance. Although cutting either a bib (frill at advanced of a man's shirt) or a tucker (ornamental applique accoutrement a woman's close and shoulders) is obsolete, the byword survives. [Mid-1700s] For a synonym, see Sunday best. Learn more: and, bib, tucker

Sunday best

One's finest clothes, as in They were all in their Sunday best for the photographer. This announcement alludes to reserving one's best clothes for activity to church; indeed, an earlier argot is Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes ( meeting actuality acceptation "prayer meeting"). [Mid-1800s] Learn more: Sunday

Sunday best

n. one’s best clothing, which one would abrasion to church. We are in our Sunday best, accessible to go. Learn more: Sunday

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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best bib and tucker, one's Idioma

a stone's throw

back on one's feet

ball is in someone's court

beat one's brains out

blow one's top

break someone's heart

breathe one's last

by the skin of one's teeth

card up one's sleeve

catch one's death of cold

one's best bib and tucker

Sunday best

best bib and tucker

Sunday best

Sunday best

best bib and tucker, one's

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