(as) black as a skillet
(as) black as a skillet
Completely black; totally without light or color. The basement gives me the creeps, it's as black as a skillet down there!
See also: black, skillet
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
*black as a skillet
and *black as a stack of black cats; *black as a sweep; *black as coal; *black as night; *black as pitch; *black as the ace of spadescompletely dark or black. (*Also: as ~.) I don't want to go down to the cellar. It's as black as a skillet down there. Her hair was black as a stack of black cats. After playing in the mud all morning, the children were as black as night. The stranger's clothes were all black as pitch.
See also: black, skillet
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- black as a skillet
- skillet
- minister
- (as) black as the minister's coat
- (as) black as ink
- ink
- (as) black as a stack of black cats
- (as) black as a raven's feather
- (as) black as coal
- (as) black as (one's) hat