What I appreciate most about him is that he is not afraid to call a spade a spade in any situation.

我最欣赏他的一点是他在任何情况下都直言不讳。

youdao

I think everyone should call a spade a spade.

我认为每个人都应该有话直说。

youdao

Let's call a spade a spade.

让我们实话实说吧！

youdao

"President Obama was the first one to call a spade a spade, basically to say it was an invasion.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

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?

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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

But, it seems that, in fifty years, nobody has appeared to call a spade a spade.

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