We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff.

Colloquy. Philetymus et Pseudocheus. Also in Dilucalum Philyphnus. In his Adagia he refers to Aristophanes as user of a like phrase. Quoted by Lucian, Quom, Hist. sit. conscribend. 41. Also in his Jov. Trag. 32. Found also in Plutarch, Apopthegms, p. 178. (Ed. 1624). Old use of same idea in Taverner, Garden of Wysdom, Part I, Chapter VI. (Ed. 1539).