Sentence examples for calling a spade from inspiring English sources

Let's start the fightback by calling a spade a spade.

"If we're calling a spade a spade, Patrick and I have had our disagreements," Roddick said.

Don't they see that, in Strauss's words, "historical objectivity" requires "calling a spade a spade"?

On campus, it all might begin with the word, in calling a spade a spade, and a scholarship an athleticship.

In common with most conservative cultures, my family has an inbuilt resistance to calling a spade a spade.

Judging by his press conference, he has not lost his habit of calling a spade an excavation facilitation tool.

"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.