de dingen bij hun naam noemenDutchPronunciationde dingen bij hun naam noemenLiteral Translation to call things by their namesEquivalentsThis is how you express this idiom across languages and locales.ListMapDutchen kat een kat noemento call a cat a catEnglishCall a spade a spadeFrenchAppeler un chat un chatto call a cat a catGermandas Kind beim Namen nennento call the child by its nameItaliandire pane al pane e vino al vinoto say bread to bread and wine to wine12Login to correlate with other idioms