one's best bib and tucker
11best — adj 1. excellent, unexcelled, unsurpassed, fine, Inf. super, Inf. superfine; first class, first rate, Inf. crack; superior, choice, select; top, paramount, capital; outstanding, foremost, preeminent; venerable, highest, peerless; perfect,… …
12Sunday best — or[Sunday go to meeting clothes] See: BEST BIB AND TUCKER …
13Sunday best — or[Sunday go to meeting clothes] See: BEST BIB AND TUCKER …
14dressed up — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. dressed formally, in full dress, dolled up*, spruced up*, gussied up*, dressed to kill*, dressed to the nines*, in one s best bib and tucker*, in one s glad rags*; see also fashionable , formal 4 , ornate …
15clothing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Wearing apparel Nouns 1. clothing, clothes, apparel, wear, dress, attire, array, raiment, garments, garb, costume, outfit, habiliment, habit, rig, ensemble, caparison, drapery, toilette, fig, wardrobe,… …
16ostentation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Pretentious display Nouns 1. ostentation, ostentatiousness, display, show, flourish, parade; pomp, array, state, solemnity; dash, splash, glitter, strut; bombast, pomposity (see boasting); tinsel,… …
17Preparation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Preparation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 preparation preparation Sgm: N 1 providing providing &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 provision provision providence Sgm: N 1 anticipation anticipation &c.(foresight) 510 Sgm …
18suit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. petition, appeal, prayer; courtship, wooing; suite, retinue, train; outfit, set, group, sequence; lawsuit, action, litigation. See request, endearment, clothing, continuity, class. v. t. satisfy,… …
19suit — n 1. set of clothes, matched outfit, outfit, ensemble; costume, Inf. getup, Inf. rig; turnout, best clothes, best bib and tucker, Inf. Sunday clothes, Inf. Sunday best, Inf. Sunday go to meeting clothes, Sl. heavy threads, Sl. glad rags; business …
20go — See: HERE GOES, HERE GOES NOTHING, BEST BIB AND TUCKER or SUNDAY GO TO MEETING CLOTHES, COMINGS AND GOINGS, EASY COME EASY GO, GET GOING, GET UP AND GO, HAVE A GO AT, HEART GOES OUT TO, KNOW WHETHER ONE IS COMING OR GOING, LET GO, MAKE A GO OF,… …
