spick-and-span

adjective

variants or spic-and-span
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1
as in clean
free from dirt or stain let's make the house spick-and-span for our visitors

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as in new
recently made and never used before a spick-and-span waffle iron that our host was obviously using for the first time

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spicing

spick-and-span

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“Spick-and-span.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spick-and-span. Accessed 8 Feb. 2023.

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