As the decades passed, a clamorous tropical settlement reinvented itself as a spic-and-span outpost of the developed world. |
He turned the Vologda Dairy Factory into a spic-and-span milk palace. |
And for staff and volunteers at Stoneleigh Abbey that means three weeks of painstaking work to ensure the majestic house is spic-and-span ahead of its big Easter re-opening. |
The previously spic-and-span New Zealand Army grew dirty-faced, unshaven, and ragged looking. |
Minimize indoor irritants with spic-and-span floors and fresh bedding. |
It has become, accordingly, a ruthlessly spic-and-span euphemism for downsizing the domestic industrial workforce, for pricing labor according to its cheapest foreign equivalent. |