Citations:neither spick nor span


 * 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 141:
 * old brick houses, mostly of four stories, which were neither spick nor span.
 * 1958, Ralph Cusack, Cadenza, section 19, 1984 edition, page 47 :
 * the last loved homes of the moribund gentry stood neither spick nor span in their forsythia and fust.