spades
Flat garden shovels
Spades is one of the four suits in a standard deck of playing cards, marked by a black pointed shape resembling a stylized leaf.
In many card games, spades ranks as the highest suit.
The phrase in spades means to a great degree or emphatically: She paid him back in spades.
To call a spade a spade is to speak bluntly without euphemism.
Single-pip card
- trumpSuit outranking all others
- suitMatched formal garments
- heartsCirculatory system engines
- diamondsPrecious crystallized carbon
clubs · bridge · whist · euchre · pinochle · trick · hand · deck
Cessation of life
- aceSingle-pip card
- skeletonInternal supportive framework
- tarotDivination card set
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
fortune · omen · fate · mortality · grave · reaper · playing · luck
Flat blade for spreading
- bladeFlat cutting edge
- handlePart for gripping
- earthSoil or electrical grounding
- soilGround matter for planting
dig · trench · hole · excavation · gardening · planting · cultivate · spadework
Ample supply, overflowing
- excessSurplus beyond need
- plentySufficient quantity, and then some
- emphaticallyWith strong emphasis
- certainlyWithout any doubt
extremely · bluntly · frankly · directly · unequivocally · unmistakably · decidedly · definitely
ace
Single-pip card
diamonds · clubs · bridge · whist · euchre · pinochle · trick · hand · deck · bid
death
Cessation of life
divination · fortune · omen · fate · mortality · grave · reaper · playing · luck · superstition
trowel
Flat blade for spreading
soil · dig · trench · hole · excavation · gardening · planting · cultivate · spadework · fork
abundance
Ample supply, overflowing
- excessSurplus beyond need
- plentySufficient quantity, and then some
- emphaticallyWith strong emphasis
certainly · extremely · bluntly · frankly · directly · unequivocally · unmistakably · decidedly · definitely · absolutely
- card gamespoker, blackjack, solitaire, hearts, bridge
- playing cardsace, jack, king, queen, joker
- card suitsclub, diamond, clubs, hearts, diamonds
- cardsplaying cards, playing card, card deck, poker deck, bridge deck
- community gardenscommunity gardens, raised beds, compost bins, tool shed, garden clubs
- allotmentsallotments, kitchen gardens, potting sheds, tool sheds, raised beds
spadesexcavators
Machines for digging earth
backhoes · bulldozers · tweezers · trowels · teaspoons
- ace of spadesPointed black trump
- queen of spadesHighest-ranking female spade
- in spadesTo an extreme degree
- calls a spade a spadeUses direct, unvarnished language
- king of spadesRoyal card, pointed suit
- jack of spadesFace card, dark suit