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call a spade a spade
vs
not mince one's words
call a spade a spade
verb
To put it bluntly, to be outspoken; to speak the truth, to say things as they really are.
not mince one's words
How often have the words
call a spade a spade
and
not mince one's words
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)