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APPLE-PIE ORDER
Traducere în limba română
apple-pie order substantiv
ordine desăvârşită / exemplară.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
You might have offered to stay two or three weeks to wrap things up, since Mercury is currently retrograde, and you wanted to leave things in apple-pie order.
(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)
The hunters have experimented and practised with their rifles and shotguns till they are satisfied, and the boat-pullers and steerers have made their spritsails, bound the oars and rowlocks in leather and sennit so that they will make no noise when creeping on the seals, and put their boats in apple-pie order—to use Leach’s homely phrase.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
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.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)