Spick and span means perfectly clean and tidy. The whole place was spick and span.
It is old-fashioned and warm rather than fussy. A spick was a nail and a span a fresh chip of wood, so the phrase originally meant brand new.
1phrasespick and spanPerfectly clean and tidy.
“She left the flat spick and span on the last morning.”
spick and span is a phrase.
Practised in Cleaning & Housework