I've been keeping my room as neat as a pin, and the yard is always ship-shape.

She changed clothes while Melly told the lie they had concocted, and she came back out neat as a pin and smiling through her pain.

Long after fat people have removed their coats and shoes and put their feet up on the coffee table, thin people are still sitting on the edge of the sofa, looking neat as a pin, discussing rutabagas.