to call spade a spade
- Fuente de la expresión
- The Free Dictionary, MacMillan Dictionary and Cambridge Dictionary
- Estructura completa
- To call spade a spade
- Variantes
- Directly; pointed; emphatic.
- Contexto
- In his reply, the MEP said: “EU farmers are facing a budget cut of nearly 10% in direct payments and nearly 12% in indirect payment. We need to call a spade a spade. There’s no getting away from the fact that farmers were let down with these cuts to CAP; we shouldn’t forget that.
- Fuente del contexto
- Periódico AgriLand
- Tipo de fuente
- newspaper
- Autor
- Sylvester Phelan
- Título de la fuente
- Schemes
- Año
- 2020
- Web
- https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/convergence-and-countering-cuts-an-meps-insight-into-the-next-cap/
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Estándar
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente