Meanings
- figurativelyinformalnot comparableCombined or reduced into a neat self-contained package.
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, Crossing1 more example
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
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