| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Expression | 1. Perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.] --Halliwell.[Websters]. | |
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Common Expressions: APPLE-PIE ORDER
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Apple-pie order | Perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.] --Halliwell. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: APPLE-PIE ORDER
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| Apple-pie Order | Literature | 1: "Everything being in apple-pie order,... Dr. Johnson... proposed that we should accompany him... to M'Tassa's kraal." - Adventures in Mashonaland, p. 294 (1803). 2: Prim and precise order. 3: It has also been suggested that "Apple-pie order" may be a corruption of alpha, beta, meaning as orderly as the letters of the alphabet. 4: The origin of this phrase is still doubtful. Some suggest cap-à -pie, like a knight in complete armour. Some tell us that apples made into a pie are quartered and methodically arranged when the cores have been taken out. Perhaps the suggestion made above of nap-pe-pli (French, nappes pliées, folded linen, neat as folded linen, Latin, plico, to fold) is nearer the mark. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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