Sunday best | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)A person'sfinestclothing, especially the clothes one reserves to wear tochurchon Sunday.1834[1799],Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, inThe Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering,page83:And how then was the Devil drest? / Oh! he was in hisSunday's best1886,Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 18, inJo's Boys[…]‎[1], Boston: Roberts Brothers:It took all the power and skill of that energetic woman to get her son into hisSunday best.1914, S. G. Tallentyre [Evelyn Beatrice Hall], “VIII. Realisation”, inMatthew Hargraves, London:G. P. Putnam's Sons,page155:It was a brave sight on a Sunday morning to see those old Tottenhamites—each with his comfortable lady-wife on his arm—proceeding in their stiffSunday bestto the morning service; pitying the Quaker friends they met on their way for their incomplete and unenlightened faith—the Quakers, of course, pitying the Churchmen for theirs.2009January 18, Brian Knowlton, “Economy and Iraq are set to lead Obama agenda”, inInternational Herald Tribune‎[2], archived fromthe originalon20 January 2009:More than 250 people, most of them African-American churchgoers dressed in theirSunday best, erupted in screams when the presidential motorcade turned onto the street.

Examples:

EN: I going to put on my Sunday best and look up Hugo Barnstead and I'm gonna say, "Look here Hugo Barnstead, I'm..."
ES: Voy a ponerme mi traje del domingo y voy a buscar a Hugo Barnstead y le voy a decir: "Mira Hugo Barnstead, estoy..."
EN: His Sunday best one.
ES: Sí, el abrigo de los domingos.
EN: They're going to church down in the villages. All got up in their Sunday best. The organ is playing and the windows is shining, shining on holy things.
ES: En las aldeas van a la iglesia, con su mejor ropa de domingo, suena el órgano y las vidrieras resplandecen... resplandecen con motivos sagrados,
EN: And you haven't seen her in her Sunday best!
ES: Y todavía no la habéis visto con el traje de los domingos.
EN: It puts my Sunday best to shame.
ES: Debe ser más caro que mi alquiler. Ella siente vergüenza por mi traje de domingo.
EN: Now, Jabez. You've got a clean shave, and I've got on my Sunday best... and I'm going to church with my husband.
ES: Te has afeitado, yo llevo mi vestido de domingo.
EN: Barbro wanted to show off her new Sunday best.
ES: Barbro quería mostrarle su nuevo vestido de los domingos.
EN: Of course, the poor girl had on her Sunday best, but really... .
ES: Claro, la pobre llevaba su mejor traje del domingo, pero...
EN: Freddie, you gotta look your Sunday best Your Sunday best
ES: Freddie, tiene que parecer tu mejor domingo, mejor domingo.
ES: Freddie, tiene que parecer tu mejor domingo, mejor domingo.
EN: You'll see me dressed in my Sunday best.
ES: Ya no lo tendré.
EN: Well, I don't care who his tailor is, he'll never fix that up so they look like their Sunday best.
ES: Quien quiera que sea su sastre... no conseguirá hacer de esto un traje para los domingos.
EN: In their Sunday best parents walked awkwardly their bodies more used to the rigours of hard work
ES: Los padres embutidos en sus trajes de fiesta, con la cabeza inclinada... y los movimientos torpes de unos cuerpos siempre curvados por el trabajo, salían emocionados.
EN: The monuments don their Sunday best.
ES: Los monumentos se visten de fiesta.
EN: The captain must have a hat. Use your Sunday best.
ES: Lo siento Bobby, el capitán debe tener una gorra.
EN: And I wouldn't mind betting, Mrs. Muller, that the fellow who did it put on his Sunday best for the job. U ou know, this is not a case of a poacher shooting a gamekeeper.
ES: Apostaría a que además el hombre que lo ha hecho... iba bien vestido, porque no es como cuando un furtivo dispara contra un guardabosques.

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