Spick

I want everything spick and span.

Our aunt Erna could never keep things tidy, so whenever anyone was due to visit, there was a rush to get things spick and span.

Great, today the floor will be spick and span.

Internally the building bad been modernized and reconstructed to a point where it was doubtful whether its previous tenants would be able to recognize a single room. Outside it had become spick. The yards and sheds had a suburban rather than a rural tidiness and had for years known no form of animal life rougher than a few riding horses and ponies. The farmyard showed no utilitarian sights and gave forth no rustic smells; it had been laid over with close green turf like a bowling green.

“Spick Italiano?” he asked. “No.” “Spick Français?” “Oui,” said Dick, glowering.