call a spade a spade

Meaning

Verb

To put it bluntly, to be outspoken; to speak the truth, to say things as they really are.

Origin

A mistaken translation of . The word σκάφη was mistranslated by the medieval scholar Desiderius Erasmus as σκαφείον.

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