het beestje bij de naam noemen

Dutch

Pronunciation

to call an animal by its name

This is how you express this idiom across languages and locales.

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Dutch
Een kat een kat noemen
to call a cat a cat
English
Call a spade a spade
French
Appeler un chat un chat
to call a cat a cat
German
das Kind beim Namen nennen
to call the child by its name
Greek
Τη σκάφη σκάφη και τα σύκα σύκα
(Call) the washing basin a washing basin and the figs figs
Hungarian
nevén nevezi a gyereket
name a child by his name
Italian
dire pane al pane e vino al vino
to say bread to bread and wine to wine
Portuguese
pão, pão, queijo, queijo
bread bread, cheese cheese
Romanian
A spune lucrurilor pe nume.
to call things by their names
Spanish
llamar al pan, pan, y al vino, vino
to call bread, bread, and wine, wine