BIBFRAME Work

Title

Call a spade a spade

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Mieder, Wolfgang (author )

Subject

• Proverbs, English (LCSH)
• Racism in language (LCSH)
• English language--Slurs (LCSH)
• English language--Idioms (LCSH)
• Figures of speech (LCSH)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• LCC: PE3724.S58 M54 2002 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 422 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Table of Contents

Early scholarship on the phrase (1851-1978) -- From Aristophanes to Erasmus of Rotterdam -- The expression in dictionaries of quotations -- The phrase in proverb and idiom collections -- Spade = shovel, eunuch, card, and "black" -- Literary texts from the 16th to the 20th century -- Scholarly use of the proverbial expression -- Use of the phrase in the mass media -- Innocuous proverbial phrase or racial slur? -- The phrase in advertisements and cartoons -- Four demographic studies of the expression.

Authorized Access Point

Mieder, Wolfgang. Call a spade a spade

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• Date: 2026-09-11T20:23:37.882282+00:00
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• Status: c
• Derived from: 12732881

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