one's best bib and tucker

If you want to put a song into bib and tucker for Sunday, that's fine.

Instead he will, in best bib and tucker, be performing his last official act as the Masters champion.

So get your best bib and tucker ready.

Everyone gets to wear their best bib and tucker.'

Who wants to be juggling trays of hot oil when wearing their best bib and tucker anyway?

He puts on his best bib and tucker and books a top restaurant for a romantic dinner.

Even so, they dressed us kids up in our best bib and tucker, as though for church or the frequent marches around stately homes.

For as long as the world has known expense accounts, business and fine eating have gone together like bib and tucker.

That was when Micky Maguire arrived, dressed to kill in his best bib and tucker.

Best Bib and Tucker Want to dress like a proper Englishman?

You can't expect me to shoot them down as they walk along the streets with wives and children all in their best bib and tucker."

"Laid out in my finest bib and tucker, hair combed, beard trimmed, teeth all brushed; why not?

That Friday, I set off for the meeting in my best bib and tucker, hoping to get there early enough to stop in the hotel first.

Put on your best bib and tucker and trot around - - to Helen Hunt's.

Best bib and tucker, Jean."

He was on duty in the evenings, like the previous one when he'd put on his best bib and tucker and gone to Sister Barbara's house.

The following evening we put on best bib and tucker and turn up at the De Montfort Hall, where this six-year-old is expected to perform.

Wish I had a chance to put on my best bib and tucker," Keff murmured to Carialle.

Oh yes, indeed, and feel the sweet, fragrant juice gush down your throat, and, if you are not careful, down the front of your best bib and tucker.

Whereupon I told her that we all intended to put on our best bib and tucker; the time should come out about right-and could we be relieved one by one?

Then home to put on his best bib and tucker for yet another opera opening or yet another dinner for 200 with the likes of Ann and Gordon Getty.

Entertainment He Prefers Social affairs of an exclusive order where he wears his "best bib and tucker" and everybody else does the same, are amongst the favorite diversions of this type.

Ironically, a restaurant with origins rooted in a relaxed dress code today has strict jacket and tie regulations, but best bib and tucker only seem right within the 82-seat Grill's dignified walls paneled with yew wood.

It was puritanism brought in prudery, I concluded, and now that we have freed ourselves from the childish belief surely we shall not keep the bib and tucker of our babyhood for ever under our chins.

Or, not eponymous, the noun could be related to the piece of cloth tied under a child's chin to catch dripping food, which, when topped by lace and tucked under the chin of ladies, is enshrined in the phrase best bib and tucker.