1. Call a spade a spade.

2. I believe in calling a spade a spade.

3. I'm not at all secretive, and I'm pretty good at calling a spade a spade.

4. Why not call a spade a spade and say that she's incompetent, if that what you're thinking.

5. Why don't you call a spade a spade? He's a rude, uncaring, selfish man!

6. He prefered, in his grandiloquent way , to call a spade a spade.

7. Donghai Securities analyst Wang told reporters who call a spade a spade.

8. She has always preferred people to call a spade a spade.

9. Let's call a spade a spade. This man is a swindler.