shipshape and Bristol fashion

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a vessel: tidy, and with its equipment in good order, properly stowed, etc.; shipshape.

   “L'Atriveda Spanish privateer, which has been in our harbour several weeks, is now completely refitted in all the graces of "ship shape and Bristol fashion," and on the point of sailing for whatever chances the fortune of war may bestow.”

2. sıfat Neatly and properly arranged or organized; neat and tidy, tidy.

   “He must be a little dictator. In all well-run businesses there is such a man. In the Secret Service, it is Paymaster Captain Troop, RN Retired, Head of Admin., whose job it is, in his own words, ‘to keep the place shipshape and Bristol fashion’.”

3. zarf In a neat and tidy, or proper, manner; properly, tidily.

   “It is often the custom of men-of-war's men, when they deem anything to be going on wrong aboard ship, to refer to last cruise, when of course everything was done shipshape and Bristol fashion.”