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Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

0248 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—spick and span

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.7812 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2015

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today’s expression and dialog: spick and span Wow! Look at your room! Pretty clean, huh? Spick and span! The floors were the toughest. Please subscribe on iTunes and get this podcast EVERY DAY! Support Coach Shane by giving $1 a month! www.patreon.com/coachshane Our sponsors: https://letsmasterenglish.leadpages.net/pirf/ (Join PIRF—Coach Shane’s Speaking Class!) www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm (Get 8 FREE DDM lessons!) www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) www.letsmasterenglish.com/ddmlite (Join DDM and get 1 lesson every week!) Our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/DailyEasyEnglish

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to easy English expressions.

0:11.0

You and me every day, come on, let's master English.

0:30.5

Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression.

0:36.4

Today, oh, such an excellent expression, spick and span.

0:40.7

My room is spick and span.

0:44.3

My desk is spick and span.

0:48.8

I want you to make your car spick and span.

0:51.4

What does this mean?

0:52.3

Spick and span.

1:11.6

Well, the spelling, S-P-I-C-K, spick, and, A-N-D, span. Three words. Spick and Span. If something is spick and span, it is clean, super clean, perfectly clean.

1:15.6

Uh-huh, really. Now, Spick comes from a really old,

1:19.6

I think it's Norwegian word,

1:21.6

Spick meaning new, and then Span is a Dutch word meaning new.

1:26.6

I mean, really, really, really old English.

1:29.7

So speak and span actually means new and new, something that is super new.

1:35.1

However, in modern English, it doesn't mean new.

1:39.5

It usually, almost always means very clean. Uhhuh super clean co-chain's desk is spikin span do you do you think that's true

1:55.0

never mind let's check out a dialogue.

2:04.5

Wow, look at your room.

2:05.7

Pretty clean, huh?

2:06.8

Spick and span.

2:08.3

The floors were the toughest.

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