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Definition of spick and span in English: spick and span(also spic and span) adjective spɪk(ə)ndˈspanˌspɪk ən ˈspæn Neat, clean, and well looked after. 整洁干净的；照管得很好的 my little house is spick and span 我的小房子整洁干净。 Example sentencesExamples - Even though he had cleaned the bathroom spick and span just now, it was still not enough for redemption!
- The Mounted Police should ride a clean cut and flat planed horse in keeping with the general spick and span appearance of their riders.
- The park's 25 staff, most of them seasonal, have been busy in the past few weeks ensuring the park is spick and span for the influx of visitors.
- Julian is so mad about vacs that he volunteers to clean up at his after-school club and always keeps the carpets spick and span at home.
- The school, as always, looked spic and span and all items for judgement were in their respective areas - green bins, plastic bins, recycling bins.
- Marvellous work has been carried out by committee members, and the village is looking spic and span, with an array of beautiful hanging baskets and window boxes.
- On Monday morning the Tidy Towns volunteers were out picking up litter and keeping the area near the Town Hall spic and span.
- A man with an eye for neatness around the place, Tom always ensured that things were spick and span.
- The streets around the inner harbour are so spick and span that you feel you could eat your pancakes and maple syrup off them.
- These hospitals are enormously busy public areas with a lot of people moving around in them, and keeping them really clean and spick and span can be quite a difficult job.
- The day started with a quick clean of the monkey enclosure, washing windows and making sure the area was spick and span.
- Our uniforms were neatly ironed and they were spic and span.
- Interior of Plunkett Railway Station: ‘In spite of this busy site's outmoded appearance, staff had kept it spick and span and litter-free.’
- It's hoped that all residents will make an extra effort to have the village spick and span for Christmas.
- If you can bear it, try to leave a corner of your garden that is not spick and span.
- I mean, I cleaned it daily, made sure everything was spick and span.
- Not only this, the trash collection point behind was spick and span.
- ‘The mothers have done a great job because they're very neat and tidy’ and the new uniforms were all spic and span.
- The Community Forum urges everyone to participate in the clean-up day to keep our area spick and span.
- When people see a vintage car driving on the road, few realise the years of work that keep it so spick and span.
Synonyms neat and tidy, as neat as a new pin, orderly, well ordered, in (good) order, well kept, shipshape (and Bristol fashion), in apple-pie order, immaculate, uncluttered, straight, trim, spruce spotless, as fresh as paint archaic tricksy
OriginLate 16th century (in the sense 'brand new'): from spick and span new, emphatic extension of dialect span new, from Old Norse spán-nýr, from spánn 'chip' + nýr 'new'; spick influenced by Dutch spiksplinternieuw, literally 'splinter new'. ‘My Lady Batten walking through the dirty lane with new spick and span white shoes’, writes Samuel Pepys in his diary in 1665. He was not saying that her shoes were clean or neat, but that they were brand new, which is what spick and span meant in the 17th century. It was based on the earlier phrase spick and span new, a more emphatic version of the dialect span new, which came from Old Norse spán-nýr, ‘as new as a freshly cut wooden chip’. The spick part was influenced by Dutch spiksplinternieuw, literally ‘splinter new’.
Definition of spick and span in US English: spick and span(also spic and span) adjectiveˌspik ən ˈspanˌspɪk ən ˈspæn Spotlessly clean and well looked after. 整洁干净的；照管得很好的 I have to get my apartment spick and span Example sentencesExamples - The school, as always, looked spic and span and all items for judgement were in their respective areas - green bins, plastic bins, recycling bins.
- ‘The mothers have done a great job because they're very neat and tidy’ and the new uniforms were all spic and span.
- A man with an eye for neatness around the place, Tom always ensured that things were spick and span.
- Julian is so mad about vacs that he volunteers to clean up at his after-school club and always keeps the carpets spick and span at home.
- The streets around the inner harbour are so spick and span that you feel you could eat your pancakes and maple syrup off them.
- On Monday morning the Tidy Towns volunteers were out picking up litter and keeping the area near the Town Hall spic and span.
- Our uniforms were neatly ironed and they were spic and span.
- Marvellous work has been carried out by committee members, and the village is looking spic and span, with an array of beautiful hanging baskets and window boxes.
- I mean, I cleaned it daily, made sure everything was spick and span.
- Not only this, the trash collection point behind was spick and span.
- It's hoped that all residents will make an extra effort to have the village spick and span for Christmas.
- The Community Forum urges everyone to participate in the clean-up day to keep our area spick and span.
- The day started with a quick clean of the monkey enclosure, washing windows and making sure the area was spick and span.
- Interior of Plunkett Railway Station: ‘In spite of this busy site's outmoded appearance, staff had kept it spick and span and litter-free.’
- Even though he had cleaned the bathroom spick and span just now, it was still not enough for redemption!
- If you can bear it, try to leave a corner of your garden that is not spick and span.
- The park's 25 staff, most of them seasonal, have been busy in the past few weeks ensuring the park is spick and span for the influx of visitors.
- These hospitals are enormously busy public areas with a lot of people moving around in them, and keeping them really clean and spick and span can be quite a difficult job.
- The Mounted Police should ride a clean cut and flat planed horse in keeping with the general spick and span appearance of their riders.
- When people see a vintage car driving on the road, few realise the years of work that keep it so spick and span.
Synonyms neat and tidy, as neat as a new pin, orderly, well ordered, in order, in good order, well kept, shipshape, shipshape and bristol fashion, in apple-pie order, immaculate, uncluttered, straight, trim, spruce
OriginLate 16th century (in the sense ‘brand new’): from spick and span new, emphatic extension of dialect span new, from Old Norse spán-nýr, from spánn ‘chip’ + nýr ‘new’; spick influenced by Dutch spiksplinternieuw, literally ‘splinter new’. |