If you are referring to the tool or implement, then yes you can.
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It is a type of electrical connectors that is meant to be joined with its mating half. The spade terminal is retangular and flat appearing similar to a spade digging tool. It relies on tension not mechanical tightening. The "spade" part is the "male" and the "female" half slides over the spade. Some people refer to it as "push-on" These are only meant for small size wires usually no more than size#10. They are common in vehicle, appliance and machinery applications.
Jack Spade is a fictional name given to the Kate Spade men's line.
10 cents and the bucket costs 20 cents.
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If you are referring to the tool or implement, then yes you can.
In this project, let's call a spade a spade and address the real issues without dancing around the truth.
Doug
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In Hebrew, you would say, "call a child by his name":קָרָא לַיֶּלֶד בִּשְׁמוֹ (kara le-yeled bishmo)
Call the number on the spade
Douglas
In bridge a 'small spade' or a 'low spade' is a two, three, four or even the five or six of spades. Of course it is the same with the other suits. In certain situations, you can signal your partner by playing a high card or a low card. In a discussion of bridge play, you may be directed to 'Play a small spade' or 'Lead out a small heart'. All you can really do is play the lowest card of that suit that you have in your hand.
It means to speak plainly. Eg. : Would you like a piece of gum? - or - Would you like a mint? - vs - Your breath stinks.
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'Calling a tub a tub' was the ancient Greek way to express this idea of calling a common simple thing by its simple common name. So it really just meant to speak plainly or talk straight and still does.But one and the same Greek word skaphos meant both primarily a tub or skiff, and secondarily a spade or shovel. (The same basic idea of a hollowed object split into two distinctly different notions in English.)When John Knox mistranslated this expression and replaced the more common word tub with the less common word spadearound 1550 it stuck.