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Originally Posted by Gilda
With "call a spade a spade", there is no parallel because "spade" is not primarily, on it's face, a pejorative. I'd never heard it used in that way before this thread. The pejorative would be a tertiary meaning, with the primary being shovel and the secondary being the shovel-shaped pips on playing cards.
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Just so you know, the saying "call a spade a spade" is based on the fact that a spade is
not a shovel...