Multiple choice

Directions: Find out the correct meaning of the idiom/phrase from the four alternatives.

To call a spade a spade

  1. A person out of his element

  2. To exult in triumph

  3. To be blunt

  4. An evil mannered person
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C Correct answer
Explanation

To call spade a spade means to say the things as they are, without equivocating or any euphemism. True things are often bitter. So, we call it blunt.

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