Sentence examples for called a spade from inspiring English sources

"I just called a spade a spade," he added.

After a couple of years he called a spade a spade and said it wasn't working.

"She's the one who has called a spade what it is, or called a bigot what it is," Burley said.

"Reg was a guy that called a spade a spade, he wasn't afraid of officialdom," Lord says.

As the narrator notes, "He called a spade the predecessor of modern agriculture, she called it a muck dig: they had no words between them intelligible".

Lord and Lady Cowdray had bought plenty of oak furniture with greater enthusiasm than concern for authenticity, and Christie's experts called a spade a spade.

"Call a spade a spade".

Everyone calls a spade a spade.

Let us call a spade a spade.

I call a spade a spade.

Nobody dares call a spade a spade.