spick-and-span

Etymology
From (1570s), from  +  (from circa 1300 until 1800s), from, from  (cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, due to spoons once being made of wood) +  (cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). Imitation of, for a freshly built ship. Observe that fresh woodchips are firm and light (if from light wood), but decay and darken rapidly, hence the origin of the term.

Adjective

 * 1)  Clean, spotless.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Dutch: spik en span
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: pioctha péacadh