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Call a spade a spade - the meaning and origin of this phrase. ... Phrases, Sayings and Idioms Home > Phrase Dictionary - Meanings and Origins > Call a spade a spade...
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www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/call-a-spade-a-spade.html
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call a spade a spade Speak frankly and bluntly, be explicit, as in You can always trust Mary to call a spade a spade ... Speak frankly and bluntly, be explicit, as in You can always trust Mary to call a spade a spade. This term comes from a Greek saying, call a bowl a bowl, that was mistranslated into Latin by Erasmus and...
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(Bartlett's Familiar Quotations perpetuates Erasmus' error by mistranslating skaphe: as "spade" three times under Menander.) "To call a spade a bloody shovel" is not recorded until 1919. "Spade" in the sense of "Negro" is not recorded until 1928. (It comes from the colour of the playing card symbol, via the phrase "black...
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alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxtocall.html
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Maybe in reply to: Todd E Van Hoosear: "To Call a Spade a Spade" ... > # The Macedonians are a rude and clownish people that call a spade; > # a spade. -- PLUTARCH, _Apotheghms, Philip of Macedon_; >; > Could someone with access to the Greek please tell me which Greek; > word was used?
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www.msu.edu/~vanhoose/quotes/0016.html
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FAQ article: to call a spade a spade ... (_Bartlett's Familiar Quotations_ perpetuates Erasmus' error by mistranslating _skaphe:_ as "spade" three times under Menander.) "To call a spade a bloody shovel" is not recorded until 1919. "Spade" in the sense of "Negro" is not recorded until 1928. (It comes from the colour of...
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www.yaelf.com/aueFAQ/miftocllspdspd.shtml
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Similarly, it is a constitution for Europe in all but name, and we should call a spade a spade. ... Mats Persson has a point about the need for us to call a spade a spade but restricting the debate on EU governance to narrow arguments about national sovereignty however is shortsighted.
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www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/2007/08/22/the-eu-trea...
www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/2007/08/22/the-eu-treaty-call-a-spade-a-spade/
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I’m just as perplexed as anyone else about the commercials. I’ve been following our advertising story closely for the last couple of months right up to our launch on 9/4. But this cartoon nails the way I (and most of my friends seem ... Call anytime : 415-972-6526 ; Email me : anand dot iyer at microsoft dot com...
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blogs.msdn.com/aniyer/archive/2008/09/18/the-commercial...
blogs.msdn.com/aniyer/archive/2008/09/18/the-commercials-let-s-call-a-spade-a-spade.aspx
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The meaning of "to call a spade a spade" is to speak bluntly. Bartelby.com provides an excellent example (maybe I am biased because I am a lawyer) of the proper usage of the idiom. "The prosecutor said, ‘Let’s call a spade a spade.
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www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/17/105059/367
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The second paragraph starts “Authorities said a man walked into the Jewish agency on Friday and opened fire, killing one woman and injuring at least five others in what they call a hate crime.” A man? A hate crime? ... Wake up and smell the coffee and let’s start calling a spade a spade. I urge every person who reads...
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www.webloggin.com/can-we-call-a-spade-a-spade-already/t...
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