shipshape — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Meticulously neat and tidy.

   Sinonimi

   shipshape and Bristol fashiontight

   Esempi

   SHIP-shape, in a seaman-like manner; as "That mast is not rigged ship-shape;" "Put her about ship-shape," &c.

   [I]t would have been more ship-shape to lower the bight of a rope, or a running bow-line, below me, than to seize an old sea-man by his head-lanyard; [...]

   Altri esempi (8)

   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!

   [G]lad to see you, gentlemen—steerage not quite shipshape at present—overhauling ship, you see; but when we once get under way, get things shipshape, you know.

   Annie, my girl, cheer up, be comforted, / Look to the babes, and till I come again, / Keep everything shipshape, for I must go.

   Well, Captain Smollett, what have you to say? All well, I hope; all shipshape and seaworthy?

   ― When are you going out fishing again? / ― Oh, in about six weeks, when we're shipshape aloft.

   Having made sure everything is shipshape, the colonel goes back to the controls and starts to bring the plane down.

   [Y]ou got the downhaul to keep him in place real snug like. Otherwise it just ain't shipshape. Hell, everybody knows that.

   Dr. Marks said I'm shipshape. Those were his exact words. Or maybe he said tip-top. It was something alliterative.

Avverbio

1. Neatly and tidily to a meticulous extent.

   Sinonimi

   handsomely

   Esempi

   No—sir—if I sink, I sink; but d——e, I'll go down ship-shape and with dignity.

   Altri esempi (1)

   I have said a good deal about Bertha, because I like her frank, easy way, her desire to please, and her pleasant natural manner of doing it. I do n't think novel-writers and picture-makers say enough about such girls. [...] Those are the girls, Ma'am, whom I want to see described by people who know how to do this sort of thing up shipshape.

   Some of you have n't sense enough to put a blanket ship-shape over a sick man. There! Leave it alone! I can die anyhow!

Aggettivo

1. characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder

   Sinonimi

   trimwell-kept

   Esempi

   even the barn was shipshape

   a trim little sailboat