call a spade a spade · Frasytram

Fuente de la expresión: Wordreference
Estructura completa: To call a spade [a spade, a bloody shovel]
Contexto: Then they jumped on me, as if I uttered some terrible heresy, when I am the only one in the region who has the guts to call a spade a spade and speak the truth.
Fuente del contexto: b92
Tipo de fuente: newspaper
Autor: b92
Año: 2018
Web: https://goo.gl/BgAwyM
Idioma: English
Nivel de uso: Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
Marca dialectal: General
Frecuencia: Frecuente