Just so

Near-synonym: even so (archaic)

If you don’t turn the knob just so, the door won’t open.

Each towel was folded just so. If it wasn't perfect, they did it again.

Jason, 14, who arrived more than two years ago after drifting through five foster homes and a psychiatric hospital, is showing visitors with evident pride how neatly the bookshelves in the living room are kept, how the sneakers in the mud room are lined up just so.

“Everything has to be just so,” he [Lonnie Rose] said. “Being in a concrete box for a long time makes you even more O.C.D.”

But the details in this room matter to Vermes, […] It’s why the water bottles in his office refrigerator are lined up just so […]

“Your outfit has to be just so.” “We tend to have outfits that match.” “You’ve got to come, and you better come correct. I tell all the chicks, every now and then, ‘Look, if it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t be walking around with that little bikini on.’ So we were flag girls, and we wore full uniforms.[…]”

They didn’t even have time to speculate about what Grail wanted before Vivienne walked in seconds later. Even at midnight her appearance was just so. Smooth hair, tight rippy jeans, one of those no-shoulder gypsy shirts.

Your dog is just so friendly.

I like any flower, just so as it’s real.