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Literary

Call a Spade a Spade

Dickens (1854).

Hard Times.

‘There’s no imaginative sentimental humbug about me. I call a spade a spade.’

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Literary Shakespeare

By the Same Token

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida.

Pandarus says he will return with ‘a token from Troilus.’

Cressida replies, ‘By the same token, you are a bawd.’