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The expression "'''call a spade a spade'''" comes from the work of [[Plutarch (nonfiction)|Plutarch]], who originally wrote "call a fig a fig and a trough a trough." Figs and troughs were crude slang for the vulva, so what Plutarch meant was "call a c*nt a c*nt". When  [[Erasmus (nonfiction)|Erasmus]] (1466-1536) translated Plutarch’s work & changed it to a garden spade to avoid embarrassment.

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* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]

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* [[Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)]]

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