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Sunday best
noun
- one's best clothes, esp regarded as those most suitable for churchgoing
Idioms and Phrases
One's finest clothes, as in They were all in their Sunday best for the photographer . This expression alludes to reserving one's best clothes for going to church; indeed, an older idiom is Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes ( meeting here meaning “prayer meeting”). [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Grandmother and grandchild were sitting on the bench dressed in their Sunday-best and with a book on their knees.
Even Mrs. Black's everyday hat was handsomer than her own Sunday-best.
On his way home he tried in vain to dodge Luella Thickins, but she headed him off with one of her Sunday-best smiles.
Sunday-best is a different matter, and in this the other gaffer was clothed.
It is needless to say, I was dressed in my Sunday-best the next morning.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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