response. Start accusing someone of using racial slurs when you don't like what they have to say. FYI :Historians trace the origins of the expression to call a spade a spade 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. The Greek historian Plutarch (who died in A.D. 120) used it in Moralia.
"To call a spade a spade" entered the English language when Nicholas Udall translated Erasmus in 1542. Famous authors who have used it in their works include Charles Dickens and W. Somerset Maugham, among others.
To be clear, the "spade" in the Erasmus translation has nothing to do with a deck of cards, but rather the gardening tool. In fact, one form of the expression that emerged later was "to call a spade a bloody shovel." The word "spade" did not refer to either race or skin color.
Now the word ass-monkey
was coined in the early 21st century America.It was taken from the symbol of the democrat party (the ass) and the fact that democrats follow each other like trained monkeys. Hench the combination of the two into ASS-MONKEY. It is used to describe liberal
, leftist
, socialists
that babble on about everything but know absolutely nothing
. It can also be used to describe Obama supporters
, progressives
, and democrats
.