Spick and span new (q.v.).
“You should have accosted her; and with some excellent jests fire-new from the mint.”—Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, iii. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.