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Call a spade a spade
To "call a spade a spade" is a figurative expression which refers to calling something "as it is",, that is, by its right or proper name, without "beating about the bush"—being outspoken about it, truthfully, frankly, and directly, even to the point of being blunt or rude, and even if the subject is considered coarse, impolite, or unpleasant. The idiom originates in the classical Greek of Plutarch's ''Apophthegmata Laconica,'' and was introduced into the English language in 1542 in Nicolas Udall's translation of the ''Apophthegmes,'' where Erasmus had seemingly replaced Plutarch's images of "trough" and "fig" with the more familiar "spade." The idiom has appeared in many literary and popular works, including those of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, and W. Somerset Maugham.
==Full definition==
To ''call a spade a spade'' or ''call a spade a shovel'' is a figurative expression which refers to explicitly calling something as it is, by its right name. The implication is that ones tells the truth about the nature of the thing, speaking frankly and directly about it,〔〔 including subjects, even if course, or considered impolite or unpleasant.〔〔〔 ''Brewer'' defined it in 1913 as being "outspoken, blunt, even to the point of rudeness", adding that it implies ones calling "things by their proper names without any 'beating about the bush.
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