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) (simile) Very neat and tidy.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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