英语词汇“to call a spade a spade”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. to call a spade a spade, to call things by their real names, without any euphemism or mincing of matters; to use plain or blunt language; to be straightforward to the verge of rudeness.In the ultimate source of the first quotation, Plutarch's Apophthegmata 178 B, the Greek words are τὴν σκάϕην σκάϕην λέγοντας. There is no evidence that σκάϕη (a trough, basin, bowl, boat, etc.) had the sense of ‘spade’; in rendering it by ligo Erasmus evidently confused it with σκαϕεῖον or other derivatives from the stem of σκάπτειν to dig. Lucian De Hist. Conscr. 41 gives a fuller form of the phrase, τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάϕην δὲ σκάϕην ὀνομάσων.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > use plain language [verb (intransitive)]

to call a spade a spade1542

to call a pikestaff a pikestaff1591

to call a spade a (bloody) shovel1919

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 167 Philippus aunswered, yt the Macedonians wer feloes of no fyne witte in their termes but altogether grosse, clubbyshe, and rusticall, as they whiche had not the witte to calle a spade by any other name then a spade.

1580 H. Gifford Posie of Gilloflowers ii. sig. O I cannot say the crow is white, But needes must call a spade a spade.

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome A ij I am plaine, I must needs call a Spade a Spade.

1630 Pathomachia iv. ii. 34 I am a plaine Macedonian, I must need call a Spade, a Spade.

1647 J. Trapp Mellificium Theol. in Comm. Epist. & Rev. 641 Gods people shall not spare to call a spade a spade, a niggard a niggard.

1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. vii. 11 This is not Time of Day For Truth to be so obvious made, We must not call a Spade, a Spade.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 199 I am old Tell-Truth; I love to call a Spade a Spade.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 115 They are the most unsavory vagabonds in their ordinary colloquies; they make no hesitation to call a spade a spade.

1884 Punch 15 Nov. 229/2 If it is absolutely necessary to call a spade a spade then it must be done in a whisper.

单词	to call a spade a spade
释义	> as lemmas to call a spade a spade a. to call a spade a spade, to call things by their real names, without any euphemism or mincing of matters; to use plain or blunt language; to be straightforward to the verge of rudeness.In the ultimate source of the first quotation, Plutarch's Apophthegmata 178 B, the Greek words are τὴν σκάϕην σκάϕην λέγοντας. There is no evidence that σκάϕη (a trough, basin, bowl, boat, etc.) had the sense of ‘spade’; in rendering it by ligo Erasmus evidently confused it with σκαϕεῖον or other derivatives from the stem of σκάπτειν to dig. Lucian De Hist. Conscr. 41 gives a fuller form of the phrase, τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάϕην δὲ σκάϕην ὀνομάσων. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > use plain language [verb (intransitive)] to call a spade a spade1542 to call a pikestaff a pikestaff1591 to call a spade a (bloody) shovel1919 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 167 Philippus aunswered, yt the Macedonians wer feloes of no fyne witte in their termes but altogether grosse, clubbyshe, and rusticall, as they whiche had not the witte to calle a spade by any other name then a spade. 1580 H. Gifford Posie of Gilloflowers ii. sig. O I cannot say the crow is white, But needes must call a spade a spade. 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome A ij I am plaine, I must needs call a Spade a Spade. 1630 Pathomachia iv. ii. 34 I am a plaine Macedonian, I must need call a Spade, a Spade. 1647 J. Trapp Mellificium Theol. in Comm. Epist. & Rev. 641 Gods people shall not spare to call a spade a spade, a niggard a niggard. 1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. vii. 11 This is not Time of Day For Truth to be so obvious made, We must not call a Spade, a Spade. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 199 I am old Tell-Truth; I love to call a Spade a Spade. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 115 They are the most unsavory vagabonds in their ordinary colloquies; they make no hesitation to call a spade a spade. 1884 Punch 15 Nov. 229/2 If it is absolutely necessary to call a spade a spade then it must be done in a whisper. extracted from spaden.¹ < as lemmas
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