(as) black as ink
(as) black as ink
1. Completely black; totally without light or color. The basement gives me the creeps, it's as black as ink down there!
2. Of a thoroughly evil, mean-spirited, or ungenerous mindset or disposition. She narrowed her eyes, and I could tell her thoughts had turned as black as ink.
See also: black, ink
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- ink
- minister
- (as) black as the minister's coat
- (as) black as a stack of black cats
- (as) black as a raven's feather
- (as) black as the devil
- (as) black as a raven
- raven
- skillet
- black as a skillet