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It is time to call a spade a spade and demand compliance with this law.
CNN: Syria must be held to the law of war
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But, it seems that, in fifty years, nobody has appeared to call a spade a spade.
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IR I agree that we should call a spade a spade and a phoney democracy a phoney democracy.
ECONOMIST: Letters
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Better to call "a spade a spade", as we used to say before political correctness or public sensitivity took hold.
BBC: Thursday 24 April
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But let's call a spade a spade: These are advertisements aimed at building brand recognition among public radio's affluent, educated audience.
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There are no veils, curtains or walls in a changing room because every team has a player who will call a spade a spade.
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Now that someone in the U.S. government has finally had the guts to call a spade a spade, there are both winners and losers from an investment perspective.
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But I will always call a spade a spade.
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The time has come for the vast majority of Israelis who aren't interested in the Nobel Prize for Literature or a sabbatical at Berkeley or the University of Trondheim to call a spade a spade.
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Even if the Working Group were just a shell, why not call a spade a spade, as opposed to insulting an industry that the newspaper itself depends upon to bring it a percentage of its news and some of its revenues?
FORBES: Shame on The New York Times
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That is the sort of image that Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's prime minister for the past 22 years, has sought to cultivate as a man not afraid to speak his mind, to call a spade a spade, to stand up against foreign pomposity and bullying.
ECONOMIST: Mahathir Mohamad
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Absolutely, let's call a spade a spade, a gun a gun, missile a missile, a cluster bomb a child-killer and a Tactica armoured car a means of brutal civilian repression when it's deployed by the Saudis to support the undemocratic government in Bahrain.
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