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Shipshape and Bristol fashion. 1826: Scott, Ciiron. ofCanongate, Introd.,
Stretching our fair canvas to the breeze, all shipshape and Bristol fashion. 1 840:
Dana, Two Years before Mast, ch xx. Her decks were as white as snow ...
everything on ...
George Latimer Apperson, Martin H. Manser, Stephen J. Curtis, 2005
Shipshape and Bristol fashion. A steel band greeted us. A black man wearing a
cape danced on stilts - a caper known as Mocki Jumbi. That evening the skipper
rented a car. Two other guests and I joined the captain and two of his officers for ...
“In shipshape and Bristol fashion” was the code by which they worked and as
John L. made his way over the well-worn cobble-stoned streets he smiled at the
obvious pride the crews took in achieving that goal. The whole country was still ...
4
Slang
and Its Analogues Past
and Present: A Dictionary ...
—Spick and span ; smart above and below: originally shipshape and Bristol
fashion. [Bristol's fameas a port inearly days was far higher than now] (Grose).
1835, Dana, Be/ore theMast, 25Aug. Everything wasship shape and Bristol
fashion.
But our dad keeps everything shipshape and Bristol fashion. At least that's what
he says. I don't quite understand what keeping things Bristol fashion means, but
when I asked Dad he said it meant always tidying your room up and doing your ...
We have made a change, though, since we now say “Shipshape and Bristol
Fashion.” Anyway, it was England's Bristol, not Nat Herreshoffs. Binnacle—The
current spelling dates from 1750 and is a corruption of the much older “bittacle”
from ...
7
A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
To be shipshape and Bristol fashion (APP 327; ODEP 724; EAP 390; MP 557)
1983 "All ship-shape and Bristol fashion." (p. 10) Grimes, Martha. The Anodyne
Necklace. 1983. New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1984. Keep your shirt on.
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
the pirate said. He rolled out of the hammock and dived under the covers with me
. “This be shipshape and Bristol fashion,” he said. “What does that mean?” I
asked. “That means all be right, tight, clean, and bright,” he said. I got out on the
other ...
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase
and Fable
More generally Shipshape and Bristol fashion. A sailor's phrase ; said in Smyth's
Sailor's Word Book to refer to the time " when Bristol was in its palmy commercial
days . . . and its shipping was all in proper good order." Bristol Milk. Sherry sack ...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 2001
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Bristol and Its Municipal Government, 1820-1851
7 To the perceptive, things were not totally shipshape and Bristol fashion. The
trend should not be exaggerated, for there was no mass exodus of inhabitants
seeking a more congenial abode. Bristol's natural assets were not to be despised
: ...
Graham William Arthur Bush, 1976
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Go wild at the Festival of Nature
Researchers at the University of Bristol will be uncovering the city's hidden river ... craftsmanship, spawning the famous saying 'shipshape and Bristol fashion'. «University of Bristol, Iun 15»
Book plate tells its own tale
The term ''Let things be done shipshape and Bristol fashion'', which appears at the top of the book plate, refers to precautions which had to be undertaken when ... «Otago Daily Times, Mai 15»
Shipshape and Bristol fashion at the Bristol Climbing Festival
A fantastically memorable celebration of climbing at Avon Gorge, with over 250 festival-goers, from new climbers to Avon veterans alike, enjoying the Bristol ... «British Mountaineering Council, Aug 14»
Review: Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival
The nautical expression "Shipshape and Bristol fashion" seems an apt way to describe this enjoyable and efficiently organised festival. Three days of continuous ... «Jazz Journal, Mar 14»
Set sail for Whitsunday reefs
But they were all beautifully polished, and the sails were gleaming white, and the ropes appeared to be shipshape and Bristol fashion, so it seemed like an ... «NEWS.com.au, Iul 12»
