shipshape and Bristol fashion
Adjective
  1. (chiefly, nautical, also, figuratively) Tidily tied down and secure#Adjective|secure.
    • 1827, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Chronicles of the Canongate; [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed [by Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, OCLC 230674472 ↗, page 111 ↗:
      When we set out on the jolly voyage of life, what a brave fleet there is around us, as stretching our fresh canvas to the breeze, all "shipshape and Bristol fashion," pennons flying, music playing, cheering each other as we pass, we are rather amused than alarmed when some awkward comrade goes right ashore for want of pilotage!



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