A British English simile meaning very neat, tidy, and well-ordered.
A British English simile meaning very neat, tidy, and well-ordered. Used to describe a person's appearance, a room, a document, or any well-organised thing. The pin comparison suggests that precision and smallness of pins represents the ideal of neatness. Common in everyday British speech.
She kept her desk neat as a pin even during the most chaotic weeks of the project.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK) (simile) Very neat and tidy.
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