You know how bowling lanes are always so spick and span?
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Rai University is spick and span whereas JNU is sprawling and untidy.
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It's no secret that Khloe Kardashian likes to keep her house spick and span.
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There's a shoe-shiner if you want to make sure you're looking spick and span.
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A perpetrator in Massachusetts broke into a home last week and got away spick and span.
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"Saala" has an appropriately grimy B-movie look that doesn't try to make the city spick-and-span.
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Tories craned their necks in premature devotion towards a spick-and-span Theresa May, Mr Cameron's spry successor.
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"I LIKE it here," says Zhang Xiaojie, as she surveys the crowds scurrying below her spick-and-span apartment.
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I'm not advocating the twee harmony of a perfect kitchen, of things being spick-and-span or just so.
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And thanks to the double-zippered pockets, it does a truly phenomenal job of keeping everything inside spick and span.
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It's not always spick-and-span perfect in suburbia, but to those who live in it, it's their own perfect little bubble.
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There are web pages, video tutorials, even (quite profitable) cleaning services dedicated to keeping your Uggs spick and span, especially during the winter.
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And then there's everything in between, largely of spick-and-span versions of chain stores available at dozens of other places in the city.
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It can run for 90 minutes without needing to be recharged, which should be plenty of time for your house to become spick and span.
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The World Economic Forum, the nonprofit business leadership foundation, occupies one of these buildings, its former mess hall now a spick-and-span meeting space.
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"To be honest, it's not nerve-racking, because I know everything here is spick and span, you can you can eat off the floor," he adds.
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"I believe that Kaga is the cleanest ship anywhere," said Hayato Nishida, a 36-year-old chief petty officer responsible for keeping the vessel spick and span.
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That's why the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) sets aside some time every Saturday to make sure that their orbital habitat is spick and span.
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With Rome already spick and span after preparations for the Roman Catholic Church's Jubilee year celebrations in 2000, Totti led his club to a long elusive national championship.
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I wanted everything to be spick and span for his arrival so that there was nothing that needed to be done, and we could just cuddle and enjoy being reunited.
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With 280 personnel, some 30 stores worldwide, and five children at home, it's no surprise that for Hindmarch, keeping her space spick-and-span is very much about maintaining control.
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Shoutout to Pat from the Disney Channel Original Movie Smart House: Girl had some boundary issues for sure, but dammit if she didn't know how to keep a house spick and span.
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The 2200-year-old man in the red brick house at 289-953 295th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens, was known for keeping his yard spick-and-span, even tidying up rubbish on his neighbors' stoops.
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But for two men who once prided themselves on managing spick-and-span administrations, claiming to have been blind to alleged acts of petty revenge and bribery at the highest levels of state government seems bad enough.
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Urged on by China's president, Xi Jinping, Beijing wants to cap its population at 23 million by 2020, and clear out gritty neighborhoods that do not fit its aspirations to become a spick-and-span capital of monuments, malls and broad motorways.
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His city house is of the spick and span order, and he evinces a great interest in burglarproof devices.
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The phrase "span-new" meant as new as a freshly cut wood chip, such as those once used to make spoons. In a metaphor dating from at least 1300, something span-new was neat and unstained.Martin, Gary. Spick-and-span, Phrases.org.uk.
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Following the Second World War, digest magazines such as Beautiful Britons, Spick and Span began to apper, with their interest in nylons and underwear. The racier Kamera published by Harrison Marks were incredibly popular. These magazines featured nude or semi-nude women in extremely coy or flirtatious poses with no hint of pubic hair.
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Church of St George, Bulford Camp The garrison church of St George was built in 1920–1927. Pevsner describes it as "large, Perpendicular, spick and span and smug". The Catholic church of Our Lady Queen of Peace was built in 1968, replacing a church of Our Lady of Victories which was opened in 1925.
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Stenglein observed that testing in her house made it spotless, or "spick and span". They took the k off Spick and started selling the product in brown envelopes to local markets. From 1933 to 1944, both families helped run their "Spic and Span Products Company". On January 29, 1945, Procter & Gamble, a major international manufacturer of household and personal products based in Cincinnati, Ohio, bought Spic and Span for $1.9 million.
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They may be composed of various parts of speech: milk and honey (two nouns), short and sweet (two adjectives), and do or die (two verbs). Some English words have become obsolete in general but are still found in an irreversible binomial. For example, spick in spick and span is a fossil word that never appears outside the phrase. Some other words, like vim in vim and vigor or abet in aid and abet, have become rare and archaic outside the collocation.
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In 2007, Elizabeth II had five corgis: Monty, Emma, Linnet, Willow, and Holly; five cocker spaniels: Bisto, Oxo, Flash, Spick, and Span; and four dorgis (dachshund-corgi crossbreeds): Cider, Berry, Vulcan, and Candy. Monty, Willow, and Holly appeared in the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony when, in a sketch, Daniel Craig (in character as James Bond) arrived at Buckingham Palace to escort the Queen to the event. Monty had previously belonged to the Queen Mother, and died in September 2012. It was reported in 2015 that the Queen stopped breeding corgis so as not to leave any behind when she died.
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He impresses the sailors there with his song "It Serves You Right - You Shouldn't Have Joined" whilst playing ukulele, and is chosen to play at the "Spick and Span" troop radio concert in London. He meets Pat, a Wren, here, and they start to fall in love. He takes her to a dance and sings "If I Had a Girl Like You" to her. In the same period, he stumbles on the aforementioned pair of Nazi spies using a taxidermists shop as a front, and foils their plot to blow up a British submarine, "The Firefly".
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1 where as a self-taught artist, he started off drawing gag cartoons and ghosting for other artists, including the prolific Bertie Brown,Freddie Adkins on Lambiek Comiclopedia on titles like Butterfly. His first strip in his own right was "Nougat the Nig" in Funny Wonder in 1920. Other strips he drew in the 1920s included "Spick and Span" in Comic Life, "Sammy Sample" in Lot-o'-Fun, "Reggie Rambler" in Jolly Jester, "Professor Botany" in Sunbeam and "Danny and Domino" in Funny Wonder. In the 1930s, he drew "Bobby Blue", "Timothy Topknot" and "Bimbo the Clown" in Tiger Tim's Weekly, and "Flips" in Playbox.
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Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie) seeks to keep the ship "spick and span" and arranges for Dave Lister (Craig Charles) to be obedient by having his cigarettes confiscated; when Cat (Danny John-Jules) finds them, Rimmer offers him a deal to return them in exchange for getting all the fish he wants from the food dispensers.Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 47. However, Lister refuses to let this get to him, instead wondering why he could not be with a hologram of his true love Kristine Kochanski (Clare Grogan). When he questions Holly (Norman Lovett) over his decision to revive Rimmer and not anyone else, particularly Kochanski or one of his drinking buddies, the computer explains that Rimmer was considered by him to be the best to keep Lister sane.
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In 1999, one of Queen Elizabeth's royal footmen was demoted from Buckingham Palace for his "party trick of pouring booze into the corgis' food and water" and watching them "staggering about" with relish. In 2007, the Queen was noted to have five corgis, Monty, Emma, Linnet, Willow, and Holly; five cocker spaniels, Bisto, Oxo, Flash, Spick, and Span; and four "dorgis" (dachshund-corgi crossbreeds), Cider, Berry, Vulcan, and Candy. In 2012, Queen Elizabeth II's corgis Monty, Willow, and Holly appeared during the brief James Bond sketch when Daniel Craig arrived at Buckingham Palace for a mission to take the queen to the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Monty, who had previously belonged to the Queen Mother, and one of her "Dorgis" died in September 2012.
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