Dicho español · Spanish proverb
«Al pan, pan y al vino, vino.»
Word for word
To bread, bread, and to wine, wine.
What it really means
The closest English equivalent: Call a spade a spade.
Call things by their name — say it straight, without euphemisms.
Hear it in a sentence
No lo adornes más: el proyecto fracasó. Al pan, pan y al vino, vino.
Stop sugarcoating it — the project failed. Call a spade a spade.
Why learn dichos?
Proverbs like this one are everywhere in spoken Spanish — dropped mid-conversation, usually just the first half, with the rest left for you to complete. Recognizing them is one of the fastest ways to sound less like a textbook and follow real speech. Every Lingocito edition signs off with the dicho del día, so you meet one a day next to news written at your exact level.