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Meanings of spick-and-span in English

Completely neat and clean.

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Conspicuously new.

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Usage of spick-and-span in English
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Mary slipped from the gate and confronted the spick-and-span damsel of Ingleside.
Rainbow Valley
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Lilly thought she had never beheld such spick-and-span efficiency as this woman's.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
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But even they had to admit that Dickie was a spick-and-span young chap.
The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse
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And Harry Loder no longer looked the spick-and-span polo-playing dandy of the Indian army.
The Rains Came
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At least, the churches must be put in spick-and-span order.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 2
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The church is so offensively spick-and-span brand new and modern.
Chronicles of Avonlea
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I went to hear the mass, which was a spick-and-span new composition of Vogler's.
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
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He had recognized, despite disguising superficialities of garb and manner, Bertha's once spick-and-span butler.
Port O' Gold / A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
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Each was freshly attired in a spick-and-span clean gingham, and they wore large shade hats.
Marjorie's Vacation
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The courses are beautifully landscaped well appointed and spick-and-span.
The new yorker
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You shan't put me to shame, wearing that spick-and-span suit, neither shall you spoil it.
Taken Alive
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I ask, who can fulfil all their duties and remain "spick-and-span"?
London's Underworld
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Ruth noted the railings, that they were spick-and-span as paint could make them; the dainty window-blinds.
Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman
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Nurse Duckett and Nurse Cramer kept him spick-and-span.
Catch-22
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She would not settle for less than spick-and-span.
Jitterbug Perfume
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It was neat as a pin, though, the bed made, the plates put away, everything spick-and-span.
The Kingmaker