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black
1. Of coffee, served or consumed without cream or sugar. I like my coffee black. A: "Would you like any cream or sugar in your coffee?" B: "No, black is fine, thanks."
2. Having morbid or grisly elements. Usually used in contrast or complement to satiric humor. The director's new black comedy offers a biting critique of modern capitalism. The play is full of pitch-black humor that will make you chuckle while squirming with discomfort.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
black
mod. without cream or milk. (Said of coffee.) Black coffee, good and hot, please.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- (as) black as (one) is painted
- (as) black as (one's) hat
- (as) black as a raven
- (as) black as a raven's feather
- (as) black as a raven's wing
- (as) black as a skillet
- (as) black as a stack of black cats
- (as) black as a sweep
- (as) black as coal
- (as) black as ink
- (as) black as Newgate's knocker
- (as) black as night
- (as) black as pitch
- (as) black as the ace of spades
- (as) black as the devil
- (as) black as the minister's coat
- (as) black as thunder
- (good) black don't crack
- a black box
- a black day
- a black eye
- a black look
- a black mark
- a black mark against (one)
- a black mark against someone
- a black mark beside (one's) name
- a black spot
- a dirty look
- a/the black sheep
- as clear as black and white
- back of the black stump
- be (not) as black as (someone or something) is painted
- be in (one's) black books
- be in someone's black books
- be in the black
- beyond the black stump
- black
- black and blue
- black and white
- black as a skillet
- black as night
- black as night/pitch/the ace of spades
- black as one is painted
- black as pitch
- black babies
- black book
- black book, (put) in one's
- black box
- black eye
- Black Friday
- black gold
- black gum
- black hat
- black hole
- black list
- Black Lives Matter
- black look
- black magic
- Black Maria
- black mark
- black mark beside name
- black market
- black on black
- black out
- black rider
- Black Russian
- black sheep
- black sheep of the family
- black stump
- black tie
- black triangle
- Black Twitter
- black up
- black-and-blue
- black-collar worker
- black-collar workers
- blackfishing
- black-hearted
- blacklist
- black-silk barge
- devil is not so black as he is painted
- dirty look, give a
- early black
- get (something) down in black and white
- get (something) in black and white
- get a black eye
- give (someone or something) a black eye
- give a black eye to (someone or something)
- give someone a black eye
- he, it, etc. is not as black as he, it, etc. is painted
- in (someone's) black books
- in black and white
- in the black
- in the red
- little black book
- look (as) black as thunder
- look black
- not all black and white
- not as black as (one) is painted
- not as black as you are painted
- of the blackest dye
- once you go black, you never go back
- paint (one) black
- paint a black picture (of someone or something)
- paint black
- paint the black
- pitch black
- pot calling the kettle black, the
- pot is calling the kettle black
- pretend (that) black is white
- put (something) down in black and white
- put down in black and white
- saintly black character
- say (that) black is white
- set (something) down in black and white
- swear (that) black is white
- swear black is white
- the black dog
- the black market
- the black ox has trod upon (one's) foot
- the black ox has trod upon (one's) toe
- the black sheep
- the black sheep of the family
- the devil is not so black as he is painted
- the new black
- the pot calling the kettle black
- the pot is calling the kettle black
- there is a black sheep in every flock
- this side of the black stump