Brewer's: Fire-new

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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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