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spade1 1. a tool for digging, typically consisting of a flat rectangular steel blade attached to a long wooden handle 2. a. an object or part resembling a spade in shape b. (as modifier): a spade beard 3. a type of oar blade that is comparatively broad and short 4. a cutting tool for stripping the blubber from a whale or skin from a carcass spade2 a. the black symbol on a playing card resembling a heart-shaped leaf with a stem b. a card with one or more of these symbols or (when pl.) the suit of cards so marked, usually the highest ranking of the four
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He called a spade a spade, but forgot to compare our forefathers' time with the present. To my knowledge, Duchamp never called a spade a spade, but always found a title that conferred the status of art on what it denoted, at the same time tincturing our experience of it through associations with, for example, fountains. After phones at Fishlake National Forest had quieted down from all the media hype, Michael Grant, senior author of the letter to Nature, called a spade a spade in a conversation with American Forests. |
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