Sentence examples for it a spade from inspiring English sources

When I see a spade, I call it a spade.

When I see a spade I call it a spade".

Once again, to paraphrase Oscar, when we see a spade, let's call it a spade.

The Sunday Leader has been a controversial newspaper because we say it like we see it: whether it be a spade, a thief or a murderer, we call it by that name.

And later "Nevertheless, worms do not invariably leave their burrows when the ground is made to tremble, as I know from having beaten it with a spade, but perhaps it was beaten too violently".

With tough or woody root masses you may need to insert two garden forks to prize it apart, or cut it with a spade or knife.

You can do this by patting it with your hands and feet, pounding it with a spade, or even rolling the bucket over it.

"It was a spade".

I rowed it with a spade..

I rowed it with a spade...

As it happens, a spade lead would have been effective, but West made the normal start of a heart.