noun
careful attention to order and appearance (as in the military)
• Topics: ↑military, ↑armed forces, ↑armed services, ↑military machine, ↑war machine
• Hypernyms: ↑orderliness, ↑order
* * *
noun [noncount]
informal : careful attention to making something clean and polished
All the car needs is some spit and polish.
* * *
ˌspit and ˈpolish idiom
Useful english dictionary. 2012.