| 单词 | apple-pie order |
| 释义 | > as lemmasapple-pie order apple-pie order n. perfect order or neatness. [The motivation for the expression is unclear. It has been suggested that it shows a folk-etymological alteration of various different expressions (e.g. a supposed *Cap-a-pie order , or French nappes pliées (see apple-pie bed n.)), but none of these is supported by any documentary evidence.] ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > orderly condition or arrangement > complete or thorough apple-pie order1780 1780 T. Pasley Jrnl. 12 May in Private Sea Jrnls. (1931) 87 Their Persons Clean and in apple-Pie order on Sundays. 1813 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) IV. 131 The children's garden is in apple-pie order. 1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. viii. 142 Put the craft a little into apple-pie order. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf xi. 103 The boat-pullers and steerers have..put their boats in apple-pie order. 1994 Eng. Hist. Rev. 109 1225 For Mann, history is ‘a patterned mess’, not something reducible to apple-pie order. < as lemmas |
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