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Meanings of spick-and-span in English
Completely neat and clean.
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Examples for "immaculate"
Examples for "immaculate"
1
They take immaculate care of their bodies as far as health goes.
2
It's not immaculate by any means; but it's certainly not an eyesore.
3
The more cleanly the pupils are, the better; they should be immaculate.
4
One was in soiled every-day clothes, the other in immaculate evening dress.
5
At any rate his ashes always look immaculate, even in late afternoon.
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The walls were spotless and the red-tiled floor shone in the half-light.
2
The ladies soon reappeared in spotless white; emblems of their pure minds.
3
The robe must be of spotless white; the mantle or scarf blue.
4
Their stalls spotless, their water bin scrubbed and filled with fresh water.
5
The wind is a great warm caress; the sky a spotless blue.
1
It was all in order-allspick and span-French ,everytouch of it.
2
Others sat spick and span and ready for supper on the porch.
3
Mary slipped from the gate and confronted the spick-and-span damsel of Ingleside.
4
Sometimes it was a coatless dump-boss blaspheming his toiling army of spick-a-dees.
5
The little people are there to keep the world spick 'n span.
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You'd never catch me hanging around this place with a goddamn spic.
2
As a matter of fact I went to a spic university.
3
When was the last time you ever wandered a spic-and-span midway?
4
Emily glanced at the signature once more, then looked down the Preserve's joyless, spic-and-span hallway.
5
Paul makes sure the apartment is spic and span before Marijana arrives, even orders flowers.
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Her little house was in spotless, speckless order from top to bottom.
2
But the sky was speckless and no sounds came from the Gratz farmhouse.
3
And his simple evening dress of speckless black became him well.
4
I gazed horror-struck at my speckless matting and pale Oriental rugs.
5
It is spotless, speckless, and of a certain quality by no means despicable.
1
When was the last time you ever wandered a spic-and-span midway?
2
Emily glanced at the signature once more, then looked down the Preserve's joyless, spic-and-span hallway.
3
It foams, making inroads into every millimeter of my face, giving a psychological spic-and-span impression.
4
It's conceivable that O'Brien is just one of those neatnik sailors who keeps his boat spic-and-span.
5
Back in the 1920s, when Prohibition was king, some pretty substantial people lived here and the houses looked spic-and-span then.
Usage of spick-and-span in English
1
Mary slipped from the gate and confronted the spick-and-span damsel of Ingleside.
2
Lilly thought she had never beheld such spick-and-span efficiency as this woman's.
3
But even they had to admit that Dickie was a spick-and-span young chap.
4
And Harry Loder no longer looked the spick-and-span polo-playing dandy of the Indian army.
5
At least, the churches must be put in spick-and-span order.
6
The church is so offensively spick-and-span brand new and modern.
7
I went to hear the mass, which was a spick-and-span new composition of Vogler's.
8
He had recognized, despite disguising superficialities of garb and manner, Bertha's once spick-and-span butler.
9
Each was freshly attired in a spick-and-span clean gingham, and they wore large shade hats.
10
The courses are beautifully landscaped well appointed and spick-and-span.
11
You shan't put me to shame, wearing that spick-and-span suit, neither shall you spoil it.
12
I ask, who can fulfil all their duties and remain "spick-and-span"?
13
Ruth noted the railings, that they were spick-and-span as paint could make them; the dainty window-blinds.
14
Nurse Duckett and Nurse Cramer kept him spick-and-span.
15
She would not settle for less than spick-and-span.
16
It was neat as a pin, though, the bed made, the plates put away, everything spick-and-span.