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not afraid to call a spade a spade
vs
on the square
not afraid to call a spade a spade
on the square
prep
A discreet, unassuming reference to freemasonry.
Honest and open.
How often have the words
not afraid to call a spade a spade
and
on the square
occurred in a corpus of books?
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