shipshape and Bristol fashionBritish EnglishBrE (=shipshape) 整齐干净的,井井有条的
Examples from the Corpus
shipshape• Hotels are warned when rooms aren't shipshape.• He gave one last check: everything secure, shipshape and Bristol fashion.• But all was shipshape, and I slept all the sounder despite the pounding.• Everything tidy and shipshape and orderly.• Books on boardKids may keep their books shipshape if you give them this pair of Noah's Arkbookends.• Anything new was noticeable on shipshapeLord Jim.
shipshape and Bristol fashion• He gave one last check: everything secure, shipshape and Bristol fashion.
Originshipshape
(1700-1800)shipshapen“made appropriate for a ship”((1600-1700)), from shapen, old past participle of shape