It gave him pleasure to keep things, as he said," shipshape and Bristol fashion". BNCB
These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre, came away evangelical and kept saying to himself, `All shipshape and Bristol fashion',only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough, but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected. BNCB
Jim Larkin arrives at a Devonshire hotel to find everything shipshape and Bristol-fashion - only there´s no owner, no staff and no guests. IE