[Ron]
careful,
The Oxford English Dictionary records a more forceful variant, "to
call a spade a bloody shovel", attested since 1919.
The phrase predates the use of the word "spade" as an ethnic slur,
which was not recorded in usage until 1928; however, in contemporary
U.S. society, the idiom is often avoided due to potential confusion
with the modern racial slur.
[Arlo]
And yet Platt accuses me endlessly of supporting speech codes and
censoring language. Go figure.
But your correction in the first line is valid, from now on I will
try to remember to use "call a spade a bloody shovel". :-)
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