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Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Plain Speaking

Call a spade a spade.Plutarch.

Figs he calls figs, a spade a spade.

“Never mind,” said Philip, “the Macedonians are a blunt people; they call a spade a spade.”Kennedy’s Demosthenes, vol. i., p. 249.

He hath been at London to call a strea a straw and a waw a wall.