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black as night
Idioms and Phrases
Also, black as coal or pitch . Totally black; also, very dark. For example, The well was black as night , or She had eyes that were black as coal . These similes have survived while othersâblack as ink, a raven, thunder, hell, the devil, my hat, the minister's coat, the ace of spadesâare seldom if ever heard today. Of the current objects of comparison, pitch may be the oldest, so used in Homer's Iliad (c. 850 b.c. ), and coal is mentioned in a Saxon manuscript from a.d. 1000. John Milton used black as night in Paradise Lost (1667).Example Sentences
Passenger pigeons were once so numerous in North America that European settlers described skies turned black as night by their mass migrations.
It's thick, pompadoured and black as night.
Amazonâs âBlack as Night,â a vampire story for the Black Lives Matter moment, builds its mythology on a history of white supremacy, with a story of a teenage girl fighting vampires in New Orleans.
âThe Manor,â along with the other three films in this slate of Blumhouse films â âMadres,â âBlack as Nightâ and âBingo Hellâ â was made on a shoestring budget as part of the production companyâs mission to uplift emerging filmmakers from diverse backgrounds.
âWelcome to the Blumhouse: Black as Nightâ
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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