| 单词 | spit and polish |
| 例句 | The moment we walked out of the classroom, his cocksure veneer, the spit and polish, would return. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It's a song about resilience in the face of adversity, and Shaver promised he'd be a new man: "I'm gonna spit and polish my old rough-edged self, till I get rid of every single flaw." Billy Joe Shaver shines during 75th birthday party at the Satellite 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z The filmmaker David Lowery has opted to update it with his own pixie dust: save what’s good, scuttle the rest, and add plenty of spit and polish for a 21st-century shine. ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ Review: A New Girl in Neverland 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z "Pullman Porter Blues" starts with the mournful work chant of a railway chain gang, followed by the breezy singing of Pullman porters, as they apply spit and polish to a snazzy sleeper car. 'Pullman Porter Blues' carries pungent blues and heavy melodrama 2012-10-05T20:06:04Z It's all perfectly amiable, but the production needs more spit and polish if it is to recapture its original zest. The Ladykillers – review 2013-07-10T18:40:00Z “I was kind of spit and polish at the time,” he said. Kentucky retiree remembers post-WWII Nuremberg duty 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z He knew about the spit and polish, and exhausting hours of practice needed to pull off a 10-minute halftime show. Little marching bands take on big challenges 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Here many levels from that initial release return, bundled up with stages from the second in the series, given an HD spit and polish and embellished with a handful of abilities absent 13 years ago. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD – review 2012-08-04T23:01:04Z Slackness was regarded as bad form, and only one member of the mess made no secret of his opinion that the Colonel was overdoing the "spit and polish" business. Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 We must indeed have afforded a sad contrast to the cavalry in France, but the conditions of life certainly did not lend themselves to spit and polish. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 Too often it is simply an occasion of smartening up—guards, ceremonial parades, saluting, and "spit and polish" generally—in fact the things that can be indulged in to excess. The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 Just spit and polish, spit and polish all the time since August, 1914. Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front That meant much to us in London-much more than if they had paraded with all the "spit and polish" of the crack troops who led them. Out To Win The Story of America in France The regiment must be moulded anew, and its lustre restored by the beneficent process vulgarly known as "spit and polish." All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand One of the big influences that helps to keep a soldier's soul sanitary is what is known in the British Army as "spit and polish." The Glory of the Trenches This we made into a very smart and show position—lots of "spit and polish." The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 We are engaged at present in practically rebuilding and making sanitary an entire French village, and in "training," which means all the old dismal tedium of manœuvres plus spit and polish. Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front So now he's a Britisher, learning "spit and polish" and expecting to bring down a Hun almost any day. Out To Win The Story of America in France |
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