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   spick and span

   /ˌspik ən ˈspan/

   adjective

   • 1. spotlessly clean and well looked after: "I have to get my apartment spick and span"

   Word Origin late 16th century (in the sense ‘brand new’): from spick and span new, emphatic extension of dialect span new, from Old Norse spán-nýr, from spánn ‘chip’ + nýr ‘new’; spick influenced by Dutch spiksplinternieuw, literally ‘splinter new’.

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