neat and tidy in the arrangement
everything in the correct place
clean
ordered or in perfect order
sterile
My mother is always cleaning. The house is in apple-pie order.
Everything still has to be in apple-pie order, even though he left the army years ago.
When I opened the fridge, everything was arranged in apple-pie order.
They entered the operating theatre and could see that all the instruments they needed were laid out in apple-pie order, ready for them to begin the day.
There is no origin for this idiom
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