| 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. |
| Add to that an airy, spic-and-span restaurant and a staff willing and eager to serve. |
| But spring and summer are great times to get things spic-and-span. |
| As the decades passed, a clamorous tropical settlement reinvented itself as a spic-and-span outpost of the developed world. |
| Minimize indoor irritants with spic-and-span floors and fresh bedding. |
| The previously spic-and-span New Zealand Army grew dirty-faced, unshaven, and ragged looking. |
