Definitions
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- adjective completely neat and clean
- adjective conspicuously new
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Examples
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But after the kitchen was spic-and-span, Zach grabbed a stack of manuals that had come in the mail that afternoon, and disappeared.
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But after the kitchen was spic-and-span, Zach grabbed a stack of manuals that had come in the mail that afternoon, and disappeared.
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I consulted the fascinating study by Witold Rybczynski, Home: A Short History of an Idea, to find out the story behind the beautiful paintings and spic-and-span interiors of Dutch homes.
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I consulted the fascinating study by Witold Rybczynski, Home: A Short History of an Idea, to find out the story behind the beautiful paintings and spic-and-span interiors of Dutch homes.
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Headquarters needed to look spic-and-span for the Life magazine shoot.
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Enough accepted his invitation to create an inspired compromise between restaurant-style comfort -- table service, spic-and-span toilets, menus with clear prices -- and the immediacy of the street-food experience.
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The check-in is prompt and polite, and their counter is spic-and-span (and yes, that does make an impression when, as in Delhi, it adjoins the peeling Air Dakkan — as we refer to it — counter).
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I admit it: I've bristled a time or two at the suggestion that a spic-and-span house, incessant reading, and parenting seem effortless in your neck of the woods.
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I admit it: I've bristled a time or two at the suggestion that a spic-and-span house, incessant reading, and parenting seem effortless in your neck of the woods.
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Lamps, books, and china had stayed put, and the little bedroom looked spic-and-span.
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