black as night/pitch/the ace of spades

Very dark indeed. To these overused similes one can add ink (Spenser, Shakespeare), the crow or raven (Petronius, Chaucer), soot (John Ray’s proverbs, 1678), ebony (Shakespeare), and coal (Chaucer). The comparison to night (and also midnight) was more common in the nineteenth century, although Milton also used it (Paradise Lost), whereas black as pitch dates from Homer’s time (Iliad).

See also: ace, black, night, of, pitch, spade

The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer

See also:

by comparison
ink in
red as a beet
in ink
(as) hoarse as a crow
crow
hoarse
hoarse as a crow
not worth a (tinker's) damn
in comparison

词组	black as night/pitch/the ace of spades
释义	black as night/pitch/the ace of spades black as night/pitch/the ace of spades Very dark indeed. To these overused similes one can add ink (Spenser, Shakespeare), the crow or raven (Petronius, Chaucer), soot (John Ray’s proverbs, 1678), ebony (Shakespeare), and coal (Chaucer). The comparison to night (and also midnight) was more common in the nineteenth century, although Milton also used it (Paradise Lost), whereas black as pitch dates from Homer’s time (Iliad). See also: ace, black, night, of, pitch, spade The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: by comparison ink in red as a beet in ink (as) hoarse as a crow crow hoarse hoarse as a crow not worth a (tinker's) damn in comparison
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