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wrapped in a bow en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (figuratively, informal, not-comparable) Combined or reduced into a neat self-contained package.
    • Among these true believers, gender and sexual preferences are believed to be necessarily tied together, and wrapped in a bow with appropriate bodily presentation. 2018, Barbara J. Risman, Where the Millennials Will Take Us, page 85:
    • Like every maiden before her, Mare was more likely to be married off, primed and polished and wrapped in a bow, than verify the identity of her writer. 2018, Madeleine Graves, Star, Crossing: