(as) black as night
(as) black as night
Very dark or black in color. A: "I can't believe that Grandma's hair used to be black as night." B: "Well, sure—you've only ever known her with gray hair."
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
black as night
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 others-black as ink, a raven, thunder, hell, the devil, my hat, the minister's coat, the ace of spades-are 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).
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
- black as night
- black as pitch
- (as) black as pitch
- (as) black as the minister's coat
- minister
- (as) black as ink
- ink
- (as) black as a stack of black cats
- pitch black
- black gold