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spit and polishnoun [mass noun]Thorough or exaggerated cleaning and polishing, especially by a soldier: they gave the dining room some extra spit and polish...- Patton, a stickler for spit and polish, couldn't understand why the soldiers in Mauldin's cartoons looked so messy.
- After that came my boots - cleaning them up with a bit of spit and polish.
- ‘We were all spit and polish, we had our medals on, walking to another gate for Joe to take his flight home,’ Colovos said.
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