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apple-pie order
noun
- excellent or perfect order:
Her desk is always in apple-pie order.
apple-pie order
noun
- informal.perfect order or condition
Word History and Origins
Origin of apple-pie order1
Idioms and Phrases
Extreme neatness, as in David keeps his financial records in apple-pie order . This term is generally believed to be an English corruption of the French nappes pliées , “neatly folded linen.” [Early 1600s]Example Sentences
I cannot find it among his papers—which, for the rest, are in apple-pie order.
It was a neat building, with everything in apple-pie order, and no danger of anything; rusting there for want of oil.
It was a neat building, with everything in apple-pie order, and no danger of anything rusting there for want of oil.
The last-named clearance had only just been effected, and the dormitory was in apple-pie order before the fox's intrusion.
Survivors bless the rod, an' fix up everythin' round the house in apple-pie order.
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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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