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Spic-and-span   /spɪk-ənd-spæn/   Listen
Spic-and-span

adjective
1.
Conspicuously new.  Synonyms: bran-new, brand-new, spick-and-span.  "A spick-and-span novelty"
2.
Completely neat and clean.  Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic, spick, spick-and-span, spotless.  "In her immaculate white uniform" , "A spick-and-span kitchen" , "Their spic red-visored caps"






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"Spic-and-span" Quotes from Famous Books



... our thoroughfare, are agreeable to observe. At night our boulevard twinkles with lights like a fairyland. The view of across the way through the gardens, as they should be called, down the middle of the street, is enchanting. All aglow our spic-and-span trolley cars—all our trolley cars are spic-and-span—ride down the way like "floats" in a nocturnal parade. Upon the sidewalks are happy throngs, and a hum of cheery sound. The throngs of our neighbourhood are touched with an indescribable character of place; they are not the ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday

... said the young man ruefully. He was a spic-and-span, intelligent looking man, with less of the dandy about him than the air of a man who had never worn anything but clothes of the proper trim, and become quite used to it. Nevertheless the sweat stood out in drops on his forehead, for ...
— Red Saunders • Henry Wallace Phillips



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