black triangle

black triangle

1. An unidentified flying object (popularly known as a UFO) in the shape of a dark triangle, typically with points of light in each corner. I know you think I'm crazy, but every spring, I see those black triangles appearing over my corn fields at night!
2. In Nazi Germany, a badge assigned to concentration camp inmates considered "asocial" or mentally unfit for work. Her clinical depression, which was vilified by the Nazis, meant she had to wear a black triangle in the concentration camp.
See also: black, triangle
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • triangle
  • be out of (one's) head
  • crackbrain
  • bats in one's belfry, to have
  • crazy like a fox
  • (stark) raving mad
  • nut up
  • plumb crazy
  • crazy in the head
  • (as) crazy as a bedbug
References in classic literature
There were five or six of these mansions on the quay, from the house of Lorraine, which shared with the Bernardins the grand enclosure adjoining the Tournelle, to the Hôtel de Nesle, whose principal tower ended Paris, and whose pointed roofs were in a position, during three months of the year, to encroach, with their black triangles, upon the scarlet disk of the setting sun.
Place the black triangle on the yellow paper and draw around it, then cut out the identical triangle in yellow.
Place the black triangle on the yellow paper and draw around then cut out the identical triangle in yellow.
The petition, backed by Disability News Service, Black Triangle, Disabled People Against Cuts, Mental Health Resistance Network and WoW Campaign, now has the support of the relatives of seven disabled people whose deaths are linked to DWP failings.
So we have Jack Whitten's "Homage to Martin" (1970), a fierce, frontal black triangle (a set of triangles within one another, actually), whose surface the artist has roughened with his Afro comb.
'Black Triangle' aircraft spotted above Seattle is top-secret US air force surveillance aircraft - according to UFO conspiracy theorists
The main objective of this study was to assess the perception of smile attractiveness towards four periodontal defects; namely: gingival recession (GR), gingival pigmentation (GP), black triangle (BT) and gummy smile (GS) among female dental students (n=100) in five academic levels at College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
Inside the Black Triangle was created with the intention to share the struggles, joy, heartbreak, confusion and diverse experiences of queer women living in a heteronormative world.
The RPU posted a video update from the scene on Twitter, in which PC Dan Pascoe said: "All traffic at the moment southbound is coming off at Thursley, which is the exit you can see over my shoulder, and all traffic must follow the black triangle diversion sign which will take you back northbound temporarily and then take you on the diversion route.
"Looking up and in front of the car, we saw to our amazement an enormous black triangle not 100 metres above us moving slightly upwards at a steep angle.
During this phase, periodic acrylic resin implements were added to the temporary prosthesis to promote gingival conditioning (Figures 6 and 7) and black triangle closure (Figures 8 and 9) and also to improve gingival esthetics.
John McArdle, of Black Triangle, who campaign against what they say is an attack on the human rights of disabled people, welcomed Sturgeon's comments.
Finally, the Person 3 (black triangle) is located at the below center of the PCA graph in the range -10 until 30 of PC1 and -20 until 0 of PC2.
In the present case, prosthetic management of black triangle and recession was done through a removable, pink heat-polymerized acrylic gingival veneer/Gum Mask/Artificial Gums/Party Gums worn in the labial aspect of the maxillary anterior dental arch.