in Sunday best

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*in one's Sunday best

Rur. in one's best clothes; in the clothes one wears to church. (*Typically: be ~; get [into] ~.) All the children were dressed up in their Sunday best. I like to be in my Sunday best whenever I go out. Let's get into our Sunday best and go out for dinner.

See also: best, Sunday

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Byline: ANI London, Feb 25 (ANI): Dressing in Sunday best, playing conkers and keeping a diary are just some of the British traditions that will turn obsolete within a generation, according to a survey. Britain's traditional 'Sunday best', 'playing conkers' may turn ... by Asian News International It depicts a fine array of people resplendent both in Sunday best and fancy dress. COMPLETELY PUZZLED BY GLOBAL QUESTION; PICTURE THIS by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) I used to go out with lads fishing and would have loved to finish off with a pint or two but one of the previous landlords would only allow you in dressed in Sunday best so us lot and our muddy wellies couldn't get in. Mike Chappel at the bar by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)			in short supply in sight in sights in single file in situ in small doses in so many words in some neck of the woods in some respects in some transaction for in spades in spare time in spite of in spitting distance in stead in step in step with in stitches in stock in stocking feet in storage in store in style in sum in summary in Sunday best in surgery in tandem in tatters in tears in terms of in that regard in the absence of in the act in the affirmative in the air in the altogether in the back of mind in the bag in the balance in the ballpark in the bargain in the best of health in the black in the blink of an eye in the blood in the boondocks in the bosom of in the buff in the bull pen in the business of			in storage in store in store in store in store in store In Store Loss Prevention In Store Processor in straitened circumstances in straitened circumstances In Street Name in strict compliance with in strict conformity in stride In Striking Distance In Striking Distance in strong relief in style in style in style in style in style in style In Substance Debt Defeasance In Substance Defeasance in substance is in sum in sum in sum in summary in Sunday best In sunder In suo quisque negotio hebetior est quam in alieno in support in support of in support of in surgery in suspense in sync in sync in synch in synch in tabulas referre In Tall Cotton in tandem in tandem in tandem in tandem In Tartiflette We Puke In Tartiflette We Trust in tatters in tears in tela in tempus In term in terms in terms in terms in terms in terms in terms of

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