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1 month agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_a_spade_a_spade
The phrase predates the use of the word “spade” as an ethnic slur against African Americans (and others of African descent), which was not recorded until 1928.
The ultimate source of this idiom is a phrase in Plutarch’s Apophthegmata Laconica: τὴν σκάφην σκάφην λέγοντας (tēn skaphēn skaphēn legontas). The word σκαφη (skaphe) means “basin or trough”. Lucian De Hist. Conscr. (41) has τὰ σύκα σύκα, τὴν σκάφην δὲ σκάφην ὀνομάσων (ta suka suka, tēn skaphēn de skaphēn onomasōn), “calling a fig a fig, and a trough a trough”.
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