SpadeWhy not call a spade a spade? Do not palliate sins by euphemisms. “We call a nettle but a nettle, and the faults of fools but folly.” — “I have learned to call wickedness by its own terms: a fig a fig, and a spade a spade.” —John Knox. Spades in cards. A corruption of the Spanish spados, pikes or swords, called by the French piques (pikes). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Spade from Infoplease:
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