Easy english expression rehashed.
Hello everybody.
My name is coach shane and welcome to easy english expressions.
Come on, let's master english.
Hello everybody, coach shane here.
Time for another eq podcast, number 241.
I love this expression Spick and span and joy.
Let's go back in time.
Today, oh, such an excellent expression.
Spick and span.
My room is spick and span.
My desk is spick and span.
I want you to make your car spick and span.
What does this mean, spick and span?
Well, the spelling.
S-P-I-C-K, spic and, A-N-D, span.
S-P-A-N, three words, spic and span.
If something is spic and span, it is clean, super clean, perfectly clean.
Uh-huh, really?
Now, spic It comes from a really old, I think it's Norwegian word, spik meaning new.
And then span is a Dutch word meaning new.
I mean really, really, really old English.
So spik and span actually means new and new, something that is super new.
However, in modern English, it doesn't mean new.
It usually, almost always means very clean.
Uh-huh.
Super clean.
Coach Shane's desk is spick and span.
Do you think that's true?
Never mind.
Let's check out a dialogue.
Wow, look at your room.
Pretty clean, huh?
Spick and span.
The floors were the toughest.
There you go.
Having a clean room is so nice.
Except when you're young.
When I was a 14-year-old boy, if my mom wanted to clean my room, I went crazy.
And when my mom asked me to clean my room, I did a terrible job.
I don't know why, but when I was 14, dirty was king.
But now that I'm much older, I prefer clean.
However... if you look around my room, oh my goodness.
Oh my God.
If my mom saw my room right now, she'd go crazy.
Not very spick and span.
But I have a reason.
I have a reason.
And I'll tell you, in about two weeks, my room will be spick and span.
Right now, it's pretty bad.
Very, very bad indeed.
What about you?
How is your room?
How is your desk?
Now, some of you, your desk might be spic and span.
But what about if we open the drawer?
I don't know if you could hear that, but I just opened the drawer to my desk.
Oh, dear.
Oh, dear Lord.
It needs some help.
Yeah, my desk drawer is not spic and span.
What about in your kitchen?
Is everything spic and span?
Even the sink?
What about the dishwasher if you have one?
What about the rag that you use to clean?
Is it spic and span?
What about your car?
Is it spic and span?
Spic and span is so clean you could eat off of it.
That clean.
Really, really super clean.
Squeaky clean.
Cleaning a desk is pretty easy.
Cleaning a room, not bad.
But floors, oh my goodness, yes.
Getting floors, spic and span, not easy.
It takes lots of work.
That's right.
If you're bored and you want to help, you can come over to my house and help make it spic and span.
I'll offer you some – a cookie.
Yeah, that will be the pay, a cookie.
A cookie and an English lesson.
I'm joking.
I'm joking.
Spick and span.
It's a great expression.
Maybe right now it's time for you to make your desk spic and span or your room spic.
Spick and span.
Or your house.
Spick and span.
Or tell somebody to make their desk.
Spick and span.
Check out the dialogue two more times.
Practice.
Find somebody to practice with.
And that's it.
Wow, look at your room.
Pretty clean, huh?
Spick and span.
The floors were the toughest.
Wow, look at your room.
Pretty clean, huh?
Spick and span.
The floors were the toughest.
Thanks so much for listening.
Make sure to check out our webpage, www.letsmasterenglish.com.
Try a free lesson.
Get our newsletter.
And if you have a question please, or a comment, or maybe some criticism, then please send an email contact at letsmasterenglishcom.
I'm Coach Shane, and together, let's master English.
