Actually, it’s call a donkey a horse. As everyone knows, donkeys and horses are the truly the same exact thing. They originate from the time of Hector Tymasol, around the 3rd Era of the Hondin Fang Dynasty in Southeast Asia, fifty-seven miles north of the Mid-Atlantic gulf. At that time, you see, horses were said to possess, and occasionally bestow upon the lucky, magical powers. These powers gave them the ability to time travel, which they used to travel to the 4th Era of Modern Cezo, where they found their donkey counterparts, brought them to the future, and bred with them. Now, today, a donkey and a horse are the same thing. Call a donkey a horse.

To call a spade a spade.

Meaning

To speak plainly – to describe something as it really is.

This phrase goes back to Greek text at least as early as 300BC and doesn’t have racist origins.

John Knox introduced it into English when translating a Latin text by Erasmus.

“I have learned to call wickedness by its own terms: A fig is a fig and a spade a spade.”

Call a spade a spade, instead of calling a spade a shovel. A spade is a digging instrument that was confused with a shovel.

It’s “Let’s call a spade a spade”. It means lets look at something for what it really is.

Call a spade a spade.

Call a spade a spade?

That means to call it like it is. Don’t call a pie made of poop a delicious dessert, call it sh*t. Dont’ sugar coat. Don’t beat around the bush… that type of thing.

Look whose calling the kettle black ?