It means to speak plainly.
Eg. : Would you like a piece of gum? - or - Would you like a mint?
- vs -
Your breath stinks.
Spade 25% Ace ~8%
The probability of drawing a red spade is zero. There are no red spades in a standard deck.
It is 156/663 = 0.2353, approx.
Spade: 1 in 4 Ace: 1 in 13
The probability of drawing a spade from a standard deck of 52 cards is 13 in 52, or 1 in 4, or 0.25.
Say what you mean and mean what you say. Give it to them straight! This is an emphatic way of saying "Call a spade a spade," which means "Don't use any fancy language or flowery terms to try to make the situation look better than it is." "Bloody" is a mildly offensive curse word used in the UK and Australia.
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.
To speak honestly and directly about a topic, specifically topics that others may avoid speaking about due to their sensitivity or embarrassing nature.
Doug
it is a democrat
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
Eggs on a spoon
They cant have puppies.
'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.