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be in apple-pie order

UK old-fashioned

Definition

to be perfectly arranged and tidy: Their house is always in apple-pie order.Clean and tidy
(Definition of be in apple-pie order from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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