Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.
I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.
If people screw me, I screw back in spades.
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
How about I let you floss with my jugular as well?
Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I’ve been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I’ve said is…an understatement.
I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there." "You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed.