calling a spade a spade
Example Sentences
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“When you’re dealing with so much power, not speaking, not calling a spade a spade, makes you weaker, makes us more vulnerable.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2021
I don’t think it’s fair to penalize anyone for calling a spade a spade, as inelegant as their calls may be, but I do think it’s fair to speak up.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2019
But if the end result is the same -- well, I'm perfectly willing to calling a spade a spade.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 17, 2018
That may feel right and there’s nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2016
Experience had shown her that where she had fancied she was calling a spade a spade she had in fact been alluding in guarded terms to the drawing-room shovel.
From The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Edith Wharton
