英语词汇“to call a spade a shovel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. More forcefully, in colloquial phrase to call a spade a (bloody) shovel: to speak with great or unnecessary bluntness.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > use plain language [verb (intransitive)]

to call a spade a spade1542

to call a pikestaff a pikestaff1591

to call a spade a (bloody) shovel1919

1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence iii. 12 We did not think it hypocritical to draw over our vagaries the curtain of a decent silence. The spade was not invariably called a bloody shovel.

1945 N. Balchin Mine Own Executioner ii. 34 Sometimes..I get so fed up with all the mumbo-jumbo and abracadabra and making of holy mysteries about simple things that I like to call a spade a shovel.

1978 M. Cadogan & P. Craig Women & Children First ii. 48 As a literary starting-off point, the determination to call a spade a bloody shovel has imposed a fundamental limitation... Outspokenness..is simply not enough.

单词	to call a spade a shovel
释义	> as lemmas to call a spade a (bloody) shovel c. More forcefully, in colloquial phrase to call a spade a (bloody) shovel: to speak with great or unnecessary bluntness. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > use plain language [verb (intransitive)] to call a spade a spade1542 to call a pikestaff a pikestaff1591 to call a spade a (bloody) shovel1919 1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence iii. 12 We did not think it hypocritical to draw over our vagaries the curtain of a decent silence. The spade was not invariably called a bloody shovel. 1945 N. Balchin Mine Own Executioner ii. 34 Sometimes..I get so fed up with all the mumbo-jumbo and abracadabra and making of holy mysteries about simple things that I like to call a spade a shovel. 1978 M. Cadogan & P. Craig Women & Children First ii. 48 As a literary starting-off point, the determination to call a spade a bloody shovel has imposed a fundamental limitation... Outspokenness..is simply not enough. extracted from spaden.¹ < as lemmas
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