Adjective : a spick-and-span kitchen. From Dictionary.com.
She would not settle for less than spick-and-span. From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
Officers and men are lined up at spick-and-span attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
Clean towels, a sparkling sink, and the tub was spick-and-span. From Wordnik.com. [Little Girl Found]
He looked spick-and-span, as if he'd managed to sit this one out. From Wordnik.com. [Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports]
She is always spick-and-span, never so much as a hair out of its place. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Just a regular house that was almost too neat, uncluttered, spick-and-span clean. From Wordnik.com. [Mary, Mary]
"All the rooms are spick-and-span, faithfully cleaned and aired out once a week.". From Wordnik.com. [Give Us Forever]
Thankfully, wikiHow has a useful room-by-room guide to help get your apartment spick-and-span. From Wordnik.com. [The Consumerist: May 2007 Archives] Reference
The captain looked suspiciously from the two grimy travellers to the spick-and-span Englishmen in golfing costume. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
Everything was spick-and-span, as if the American managers might return at any second, probably tidier without them. From Wordnik.com. [December 6]
RACHEL DORNHELM: In the spick-and-span kitchen of Vallejo Fire Station 27, the sweet smell of flavored coffee hangs in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Stations Cut Services As City Budgets Shrink] Reference
But at last all three rooms were in spick-and-span order, and the two judges were summoned to behold the result of the week's labor. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
In fact, my dear, spick-and-span General Peter Pace, adultery is one of those activities that takes only one married entity to tango. From Wordnik.com. [Top U.S. General Puts It In Hi Mouth] Reference
It was sometimes remarked by visitors that her surroundings had not the spick-and-span appearance which usually characterises a Scottish. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
Be that as it might, she was an excellent manager; everything at the Low Farm was in spick-and-span order, and fit for inspection at any time of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
We looked too soft, too clean, too spick-and-span. From Wordnik.com. [High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France] Reference
It was forbiddingly and uncompromisingly spick-and-span. From Wordnik.com. [Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch] Reference
This spick-and-span novelty does not quite suit my taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
At least, the churches must be put in spick-and-span order. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
I went to hear the mass, which was a spick-and-span new composition of Vogler's. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference
You shan't put me to shame, wearing that spick-and-span suit, neither shall you spoil it. From Wordnik.com. [Taken Alive] Reference
The deep shaft was almost cleared of rubbish; the site was tidied up and in spick-and-span order. From Wordnik.com. [There was a King in Egypt] Reference
But there were ower-mony great folks dipped in the same doings to make a spick-and-span new warld. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
She'll need her room pretty and spick-and-span; she won't get much of that sort of thing at The Dales. From Wordnik.com. [Girls of the Forest] Reference
She looked far different from the spick-and-span battleship which had left Portsmouth only six weeks previously. From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
It was a new sensation for me to be steaming down comfortably on a beautifully-kept steamer, as spick-and-span as a private yacht. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
The stranger was smartly dressed, and his spick-and-span garb contrasted strangely with the general riot of dirt aboard the schooner. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
Charities, all clean and spick-and-span and -- not in it; not even on the edge of it -- stormed up to Obermuller standing at the wings. From Wordnik.com. [In the Bishop's Carriage] Reference
Stuart met him in a spick-and-span uniform of His Majesty's Foot, cross-belts pipe-clayed white as snow, boots polished until they shone. From Wordnik.com. [Blackbeard: Buccaneer] Reference
You approach the hotel through its spick-and-span stableyard and find an unexpectedly modern building, built in 1999 and renovated in 2009. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Thence we went past two large farms, and out into open meadow lands, everything being kept most spick-and-span by the hundreds of servants. From Wordnik.com. [The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia] Reference
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