Word info

suit and tie

Adjective

Meaning

suit and tie (comparative more suit and tie, superlative most suit and tie)

Formal, serious, and professional
Max, you don't work in an office, but you still have to make it on time to this construction site like a suit and tie kind of job.

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Examples

Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie. David Mamet

When you come from a family of communists and you go through your teenage rebellion, what's the best way of rebelling from a family of communists? Well, I put on a suit and tie and became a capitalist... There was nothing I could do to upset my family more than that. Bill Browder

I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work. Romain Grosjean

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