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  • 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...
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    binomial. For example, spick is a fossil word that never appears outside the phrase spick and span. Some other words, like vim in vim and vigor,[citation needed]...
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  • Fossil word (category Archaic words and phrases)
    "short shrift" and 'shrove' in "Shrove Tuesday" span and spick, as in "spick and span" turpitude, as in "moral turpitude" vim, as in "vim and vigor", though...
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  • Khāne-takānī, an Iranian tradition of spring cleaning Ito, Masami (26 December 2015). "'Ōsōji': ways to keep your home spick and span". The Japan Times....
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    spaniels, Bisto, Oxo, Flash, Spick, and Span; and four "Dorgis" (dachshund-corgi crossbreeds), Cider, Berry, Vulcan, and Candy. In 2012, Queen Elizabeth...
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  • and potatoes rape and pillage divide and conquer tall, dark, and handsome pins and needles brains and beauty rock and roll spick and span chalk and cheese...
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  • digest magazines such as Beautiful Britons, Spick and Span began to appear, with their interest in nylons and underwear. The racier Kamera published by...
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    September 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2014. Wendy Frew (18 July 2013). "Spick and span". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 24 September...
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    Bulford Camp (category Buildings and structures in Wiltshire)
    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...
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  • Spic (disambiguation) (redirect from Spick)
    Look up spic or spick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Spic is an ethnic slur for a person of Latino/Hispanic descent. Spic, spik or Špik may also...
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  • arrive from the officers' mess with a large whisky and ginger ale. He would find me already spick and span, for though I have a great regard for the Guards...
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    digest magazines such as Beautiful Britons, Spick and Span, with their interest in nylons and underwear and the racier Kamera published by Harrison Marks...
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  • volcano, and jungle, with some changes for the main characters - Marina takes residence in an ornate, life-sized sandcastle, built by Sharko; Zig and Bernie...
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    January 6, 1954. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com. "Locust St. Stations Are Spick-And-Span And Nearly Empty". The Philadelphia Inquirer. April 4, 1962. pp. 1, 10...
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    Colonial Williamsburg (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    burden of criticism that the restored town appears too neat and clean, too 'spick-and-span', and too manicured to be believable". Ada Louise Huxtable, an...
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  • Spic (category Ethnic and religious slurs)
    Spic (or spick) is an ethnic slur used in the United States to describe Hispanic and Latino Americans, or Spanish-speaking people from Latin America....
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  • The series, encompassing drama and documentary, remained in sporadic production from 1968 to 2002, airing on ITV and Channel 4. Written by Freda Kelsall...
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  • 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...
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    in his preparation and off-field demeanour. He took great pride in his appearance and Trueman says he was "always spick and span". Neville Cardus described...
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    beer cans down the hill into his driveway. He'd have his drive all spick 'n' span when he left the house, then get home to find all these empty cans....
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