Douglas
If you are referring to the tool or implement, then yes you can.
In this project, let's call a spade a spade and address the real issues without dancing around the truth.
Russell
cliff
A bald man.
it is a democrat
In Hebrew, you would say, "call a child by his name":קָרָא לַיֶּלֶד בִּשְׁמוֹ (kara le-yeled bishmo)
Call the number on the spade
Answer: EdwardJoke 2: What do you call a man with 2 planks of wood on his head?Answer: Edward WoodJoke 3: What do you all a man with 3 planks of wood on his head?Answer: Edward Woodward.Plain, ole, silly jokes lol. :p
Eggs on a spoon
'Calling a tub a tub' was the ancient Greek way to express this idea of calling a common simple thing by its simple common name. So it really just meant to speak plainly or talk straight and still does.But one and the same Greek word skaphos meant both primarily a tub or skiff, and secondarily a spade or shovel. (The same basic idea of a hollowed object split into two distinctly different notions in English.)When John Knox mistranslated this expression and replaced the more common word tub with the less common word spadearound 1550 it stuck.