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Good Speech From Nicola Sturgeon !
'Many of Trump's comments deeply abhorrent'
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Good for her....calling a spade a spade. Not a hint of hypocrisy, when is more than you can say for most Tory politicians.
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Good for her....calling a spade a spade. Not a hint of hypocrisy, when is more than you can say for most Tory politicians.
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//What happens when a perfectly innocuous phrase takes on a more sinister meaning over time?
Case in point, the expression "to call a spade a spade." For almost half a millennium, the phrase has served as a demand to "tell it like it is." It is only in the past century that the phrase began to acquire a negative, racial overtone.
Historians trace the origins of the expression to the Greek phrase "to call a fig a fig and a trough a trough." Exactly who was the first author of "to call a trough a trough" is lost to history. Some attribute it to Aristophanes, while others attribute it to the playwright Menander.//
Case in point, the expression "to call a spade a spade." For almost half a millennium, the phrase has served as a demand to "tell it like it is." It is only in the past century that the phrase began to acquire a negative, racial overtone.
Historians trace the origins of the expression to the Greek phrase "to call a fig a fig and a trough a trough." Exactly who was the first author of "to call a trough a trough" is lost to history. Some attribute it to Aristophanes, while others attribute it to the playwright Menander.//
Jack...."Black as the Ace of Spades" has nothing to do with race or black people, and its perfectly OK to use the phrase.
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