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"Call a spade a spade" is a figurative expression.It refers to calling something "as it is" [1] —that is, by its right or proper name, without "beating about the bush", but rather speaking truthfully, frankly, and directly about a topic, even to the point of bluntness or rudeness, and even if the subject is considered coarse, impolite, or unpleasant.
Does "spade" in this context refer to the type of shovel, or the old derogatory term for a person of African heritage? 143.182.124.2 17:44, 15 June 2007 (UTC) [] The expression to call a spade a spade is thousands of years old and etymologically has nothing whatsoever to do with any racial sentiment.
Spade: digs holes Shovel: moves stuff. It's sometimes said "Sometimes you have to call a spade a fucking shovel." This is incorrect. A spade digs holes. A shovel moves stuff. The fact that some folks confuse the two doesn't mean you should lower yourself to their level of ignorance -- you're a Wikipedian, aren't you? "Fucking" doesn't help.
Everyday, 82-year-old Bud Caldwell goes to a local park where he bought a bench dedicated to his late wife Betty. But when a snowstorm hit Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, his daily walks became impossible.
The Call were earlier known as Airtight and then Motion Pictures, serving as Phil Seymour's band at that time. A version of the John Prine/Phil Spector song "If You Don't Want My Love" with Phil backed by The Call was released on the 2020 album If You Don't Want My Love as part of the Phil Seymour archive series.
The album, released in May 2012, was the Red Dirt bands' third studio album.It is named after a street in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, [2] where many of the album's songs were written, [3] although one of the band's members compared the name to beginning to go out on the road as a band by saying "any normalcy we had is pretty much over with". [2]
To call a spade a spade is to describe something clearly and directly. Rather than using oblique and obfuscating language , just "tell it like it is". While editors who consistently engage in disruptive editing are disruptive editors, and editors who consistently vandalize are vandals, it is still required that editors be civil to one another.
"The Snake" is a song written and first recorded by civil-rights activist Oscar Brown in 1963; it became a hit single for American singer Al Wilson in 1968. [2] [3] The song tells a story similar to Aesop's fable The Farmer and the Viper and the African American folktale "Mr. Snake and the Farmer". [4]