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spick-and-span
[ spik-uhn-span ]
adjective
- spotlessly clean and neat:
a spick-and-span kitchen.
- perfectly new; fresh.
adverb
- in a spick-and-span manner.
spick-and-span
/ 藞蝉辫瑟办蓹苍藞蝉辫忙苍 /
adjective
- extremely neat and clean
- new and fresh
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of spick-and-span1
1570鈥80; short for spick-and-span-new, alliterative extension of span-new
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of spick-and-span1
C17: shortened from spick-and-span-new, from obsolete spick spike, nail + span-new
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Idioms and Phrases
Neat and clean, as in When Ruth has finished cleaning, the whole house is spick and span . This term combines two nouns that are now obsolete, spick , 鈥渁 nail鈥 or 鈥渟pike,鈥 and span , 鈥渁 wooden chip.鈥 In the 1500s a sailing ship was considered spick and span when every spike and chip was brand-new. The transfer to the current sense took place in the mid-1800s.Advertisement
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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