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be blunt
vs
call a spade a spade
be blunt
call a spade a spade
verb
To put it bluntly, to be outspoken; to speak the truth, to say things as they really are.
How often have the words
be blunt
and
call a spade a spade
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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