just so

adv

1. In the precise manner indicated.

   “Near-synonym: even so (archaic)”

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

2. very neatly and tidily.

   “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.””

3. To the same extent.

   “Poor in quality are these classes [of poetry], just so rich in the number of songs and melodies are the other groups which constitute the wedding-songs proper.”

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see just, so

   “Your dog is just so friendly.”

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