lay the first stone (verb) break the ice: prepare the way
Sinonime: alike, all together, arranged, businesslike,
careful,
clean,
conventional,
correct,
exact,
fixed,
formal, framed, in apple-pie order, in good shape, in order, in shape, methodic, neat, neat as button, neat as pin, precise,
regular, regulated,
scientific, set-up, shipshape,
slick, spick-and-span, systematic, systematized,
thorough, tidy, to rights,
together,
trim, uncluttered,
uniformAntonime: complicated, disorderly,
disorganized, unmethodical, unsystematic, untidy