Crossword clues for apple-pie order
apple-pie order
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apple pie \Ap"ple pie`\ A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar.
Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so
doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to
prevent any one from getting at his length between them.
--Halliwell
--Conybeare.
Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.]
--Halliwell.
Wiktionary
n. (context colloquial dated English) A neat and tidy arrangement or organization.
Usage examples of "apple-pie order".
Roderick knew farming like the palm of his hand, and they had an excellent agent who, with real money strength behind him, would put things in apple-pie order before you knew it.
I promised Uncle Teddy that you shouldn't see it till it was all in apple-pie order.
It had evidently been newly tuned and put in apple-pie order, but, perfect as it was, I think the real charm lay in the happiest of all happy faces which leaned over it, as Beth lovingly touched the beautiful black and white keys and pressed the bright pedals.
Every thing was put in apple-pie order in and about the old house.
She slammed the lid shut, glanced around one final time to make sure the mobile home was in apple-pie order, and grabbed her suitcase.
The room was in apple-pie order, with the afternoon sun slanting in through the modem casement windows which Wolfe had admired.
There was our fifteen sail of the line all in apple-pie order, packed up as close as dominoes, and every man on board of them longing to come to the scratch.
Cobbold's affairs in apple-pie order for another day had been done, and he took the six-ten train back to his Great Neck home.