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Access the Spades Plus application on your computer via Facebook.com or your web-enabled mobile device and make an in-game purchase of at least USD $19.99. Each separate purchase made during the Promotion Period will result in a certain number of sweepstakes entries depending on the purchase amount as set forth below. Spades may not be lead and they may not be played until spades have been 'broken'. 'Breaking' spades occurs when a player could not follow suit and he played a spade as his choice or a player either lead or played a spade because he only has all spades in his hand. After 'breaking' spades, anyone can then lead them when it is their turn.
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A spade is a digging and gardening tool.
Spade or Spades may also refer to:
Cards[edit]
- Spades (card game), a trick-taking card game
- Spades (suit), one of the four French suits commonly used in playing cards
Music[edit]
- The Spade, a 2011 studio album by Butch Walker
- 'Spade', a song from The Golden Age of Grotesque by Marilyn Manson
Places[edit]
- Spades, Indiana, an unincorporated community
- Spade Township, Knox County, Nebraska, United States
- Spade, Texas, a census designated place
- Spade Ranch (Nebraska), a cattle ranch
- Spade Ranch (Texas), two ranches
Software[edit]
- SPAdes (software), a set of tools for genomic sequence assembly
Other uses[edit]
- Toyota Spade, a variant of the Toyota Porte mini multi-purpose vehicle
- Spade, a character from Freedom Planet
- Spade, an otter in Tarka the Otter
- Spade, a form of ancient Chinese coinage
- Spade, an aircraft aileron component
- Spade, an ethnic slur for a black person
People with the name[edit]
- Andy Spade, American entrepreneur, brother of David Spade
- Bob Spade (1877–1924), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- David Spade (born 1964), American comedian and actor
- Dean Spade (born 1977), American lawyer, writer and academic
- Doug Spade (born 1951), American politician
- Dudley Spade (born 1956), American politician
- Henri Spade (1921–2008), French journalist, television producer and novelist
- Kate Spade (1962–2018), American designer, co-founder of Kate Spade New York
- Mark Spade, pseudonym of Nigel Balchin (1908–1970), English psychologist, novelist and screenwriter
- Spade Cooley (1910–1969), American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality, convicted of murdering his second wife
See also[edit]
- Call a spade a spade, a figurative expression, meaning to speak plainly and bluntly
- Spade House, home of writer H. G. Wells from 1901 to 1909
- Spayed, past tense form of the verb 'to spay'
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Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. (as) black as night
Very dark or black in color. A: 'I can't believe that Grandma's hair used to be black as night.' B: 'Well, sure—you've only ever known her with gray hair.'
(as) black as pitch
Very dark or black in color A: 'I can't believe that Grandma's hair used to be black as pitch.' B: 'Well, sure—you've only ever known her with gray hair.'
(as) black as the ace of spades
Completely black; totally without light or color. ('Spades' is a black suit in a deck of cards.) The basement gives me the creeps, it's as black as the ace of spades down there!
(as) cocky as the king of spades
Conceited or haughty. Don't invite Joe to lunch unless you want to hear him brag about all the important things he's doing in his new job. He's just as cocky as the king of spades lately.
call a spade a spade
To address or describe the true nature of someone or something, even if it is unpleasant. The term originated from a translation of an ancient Greek phrase, but is considered offensive by some due to the later use of the word 'spade' as a racial slur for a black person. I know you like Jason, but he's a jerk! I'm sorry, but I have to call a spade a spade.You have to call a spade a spade and acknowledge the corruption built into this system!
do the spadework
To do the necessary preparatory work or research to successfully complete a given task or objective. Likened to working the soil with a spade when preparing to plant something. If you are looking to start your own business, you have to be sure to do the spadework first.I was up all night doing the spadework for my first case as a lawyer.
in spades
In large quantity or to an extreme degree. A con artist needs charm, and she had it in spades.This campaign has had drama in spades, but not much discussion of the issues.
spade up
To dig up and turn over soil or some body of soil with or as with a spade. A noun or pronoun can be used between 'spade' and 'up.' You'll want to spade up the flower bed and mix in some fresh compost before sowing the new seeds.The ground was so full of stones and weeds that spading the soil up was an absolute chore.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
*black as a skillet
and *black as a stack of black cats; *black as a sweep; *black as coal; *black as night; *black as pitch; *black as the ace of spadescompletely dark or black. (*Also: as ~.) I don't want to go down to the cellar. It's as black as a skillet down there.Her hair was black as a stack of black cats.After playing in the mud all morning, the children were as black as night.The stranger's clothes were all black as pitch.
call a spade a spade
Fig. to call something by its right name; to speak frankly about something, even if it is unpleasant. (Considered offensive by some. Use only with discretion.) Well, I believe it's time to call a spade a spade. We are just avoiding the issue.Let's call a spade a spade. The man is a liar.
*cocky as the king of spades
boastful; overly proud. (*Also: as ~.) He'd challenge anyone to a fight. He's as cocky as the king of spades.She strutted in, cocky as the king of spades.
in spades
in the best or most extreme way possible; extravagantly. He flunked the test in spades.He succeeded at life in spades—honors degree, great career, rich wife, lovely children, and early retirement.
spade something up
to turn over the soil in a garden plot with a spade. Please go out and spade the garden up so I can plant the potatoes and onions. I will spade up the garden when I have time.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
call a spade a spade
Speak frankly and bluntly, be explicit, as in You can always trust Mary to call a spade a spade. This term comes from a Greek saying, call a bowl a bowl, that was mistranslated into Latin by Erasmus and came into English in the 1500s. Also see tell it like it is.
do the spadework
Make the preliminary preparations or do the preliminary research for something. For example, The department head did all the spadework for this agreement. This expression transfers the heavy spading required to prepare for planting to other kinds of preparation. [c. 1900]
in spades
Considerably, in the extreme; also, without restraint. For example, They were having money problems, in spades, or Jan told him what he really thought of him, in spades. This expression alludes to spades as the highest-ranking suit in various card games, such as bridge, and transfers 'highest' to other extremes. [Colloquial; 1920s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
call a spade a spade
If you call a spade a spade, you speak honestly and directly about a subject even if it offends people. In the meantime, Whyte is emerging as an outspoken voice who is willing to call a spade a spade.I'm not at all secretive, and I'm pretty good at calling a spade a spade. Note: You can also say that someone calls a spade a shovel when they speak extremely honestly and directly. He is never afraid to call a spade a shovel — and that is why he has universal respect in the game. Note: In a play by the Ancient Greek dramatist Menander, one of the characters says `I call a fig a fig, and a spade a spade'.
in spades
COMMON
1. If you have something in spades, you have a lot of it. The job required determination and ambition — and she had both qualities in spades.
2. If something happens in spades, it happens to a great degree. All this effort has paid off in spades.
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
call a spade a spade
speak plainly or bluntly, without avoiding issues which are unpleasant or embarrassing.A variation on this phrase, dating from the early 20th century and used for humorous emphasis, is call a spade a shovel .
1998Spectator A man whom I might not agree with where politics are concerned, but one who calls a spade a spade.
in spades
to a very high degree; as much as or more than could be desired. informalThis expression derives from the fact that spades are the highest-ranking suit in the card game bridge.
1996Time Out Wit, vitality, heart, story-telling flair: the movie has each in spades.
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
call a ˌspade a ˈspade
speak openly and directly about something unpleasant: I believe in calling a spade a spade. When a patient’s going to die, I say so. Most people prefer to know the truth. OPPOSITE: beat about the bushin ˈspades
(informal) in large amounts or to a great degree: He’d got his revenge now, and in spades.Game Spades Terms
Spades are one of the four kinds of playing cards. They are the highest cards in the game of bridge.
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
in spades
mod. in the best way possible; extravagantly. He flunked the test in spades.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
call a spade a spade
See also: call, spade
in spades
To a considerable degree: They had financial trouble in spades.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
black as night/pitch/the ace of spades
Very dark indeed. To these overused similes one can add ink (Spenser, Shakespeare), the crow or raven (Petronius, Chaucer), soot (John Ray’s proverbs, 1678), ebony (Shakespeare), and coal (Chaucer). The comparison to night (and also midnight) was more common in the nineteenth century, although Milton also used it (Paradise Lost), whereas black as pitch dates from Homer’s time (Iliad).
call a spade a spade, to
To speak frankly and bluntly, to be quite explicit. The term dates from the sixteenth century, but may go back even to Greek and Roman times. One translation of Cicero’s Ad Familiares reads, “Here is your Stoic disquisition . . . ‘the wise man will call a spade a spade.’”There are numerous repetitions throughout the 1500s, such as John Taverner’s (“Whiche call . . . a mattok nothing els but a mattok, and a spade a spade,” Garden of Wysdome, 1539), and later uses by Ben Jonson, Robert Burton, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain, among others. A cliché since the nineteenth century, it acquired a more sinister meaning when spade became an offensive slang word for a black person.
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer Copyright © 2013 by Christine Ammer
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