Sentence examples for like a spade from inspiring English sources
As one critic remarked, "Monsieur Pissarro's brush is like a spade painfully turning the earth".
On a neutral lead, like a spade, the declarer would have had little choice.
There is nothing sporting about whaling into a person's body fat like a spade.
But the graphics are cartoonish: strange shapes that bear little resemblance to the plants selected, instead of photographs or drawings (a dogwood tree looks like a spade, for example).
For example, you probably don't just want a picture of your bird on the bird feeder, so it's a good idea to set up something that it might hop on to nearby, "like a spade, for example.
North's jump to three no-trump expressed his values, although he would have liked a spade bolster like the ten.
It just so happens that the two of us we like to call a spade a spade.
Wodehouse is like "taking a spade to a souffle".
Sontag (West) did not like leading a spade, because that was dummy's suit.
The Chinese text is full of idiomatic phrases that have been cumbersomely rendered into clichés like "calling a spade a spade" and "see the light at the end of the tunnel" that are not redolent of Chinese culture.
