Neat As A Pin

Next to a cappuccino maker was the untidy exception to the neat-as-a-pin room—a large collection of bottles of booze. ❋ Ellen Crosby (2010)

The little pieces of shredded Palestinian children fall as lightly on the conscience of Europeans and Americans as the dust from the crematoria on the neat-as-a-pin flower boxes brushed off daily by German hausfraus living in the shadows of Dachau and Auschwitz. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The reports of my untidiness alarmed my neat-as-a-pin parents far more than anything else. ❋ Alison Larkin (2008)

I like to think of the immune system of kids in neat-as-a-pin homes as being like the Highland Park police. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I found Cheyenne sitting on the edge of her neat-as-a-pin bed, knees together, feet apart, posture slumped. ❋ KATE BRAIN (2007)

He stepped forward and took my hand, tugging me toward the neat-as-a-pin bed. ❋ KATE BRIAN (1998)

I gritted my teeth and shuffled to the office, sliding into the ladder-back wooden chair directly across from Dawson’s neat-as-a-pin desk. ❋ Lori Armstrong (2010)

It helps that neither of us feel the need for a neat-as-a-pin house and um that his mother doesn’t live close enough to visit too often. ❋ Unknown (2010)

a solitary sound drifting through the neat-as-a-pin house over the hard wood floors past the empty rooms of grown up sisters and brothers and over the sleeping ears of her mother and father weary from raising the last child. ❋ Unknown (2009)