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out of a bandbox

See: LOOK AS IF ONE HAS COME OUT OF A BANDBOX.

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look as if one has come out of a bandbox

[look as if one has come out of a bandbox] {v. phr.}, {informal} To look very clean and fresh; look as if you had just had a bath and put […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[bandbox] See: [LOOK AS IF ONE HAS COME OUT OF A BANDBOX]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

as if one has come out of a bandbox

[as if one has come out of a bandbox] See: [LOOK AS IF ONE HAS COME OUT OF A BANDBOX]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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