a mark beside your name means you are bad If you cause an accident, you get a black mark beside your name.
a blackout (TV)
refusal to broadcast an event during that event A blackout is intended to encourage fans to attend an event.
a blackout (war)
a policy that requires lights to be turned off Blackouts prevented bombers from seeing their targets at night.
black and white
thinking of everything or judging everything as either good or bad He tries to see everything in black and white although he knows this is impossible.
black eye
an eye injury that causes the skin to turn black """How'd you get the black eye?"" ""Fighting - in a hockey game."""
Black Friday
the day the stock market crashed (failed) in 1929 In the 1980s, there were days to remind us of Black Friday.
black-listed
excluded, not be invited, not allowed to join Gore was black-listed because he led the demonstration.
black mark
(See a black mark)
black out
remove the nameplate and trim from a vehicle James Dean drove a blacked-out Merc in Rebel Without A Cause.
black sheep
the bad one, the one who does bad things He's the black sheep in that family - always in trouble.
black sheep (of the family)
a person who is a disgrace to a family or group The man is the black sheep in his family and is the only member who has not made a success of his life.
blackout
(See a blackout)
give a black eye
cause a loss of respect for a person or organization, pride goeth before a fall When a priest is convicted of sexual assault, it gives the Catholic Church a black eye.
in black and white
in writing The company refused to deal with the customer's complaints until they saw them in black and white.
in the black
showing a profit, in a sound financial position After one year our company was in the black - showing a profit.
pot calling the kettle black
a guilty person accusing another guilty person When thief accuses robber, it's the pot calling the kettle black.
black book
1. a small book carried by graffiti artists for others to do work in 2. a book to carry phone numbers in 3. The Bible
black gangster disciple
a Chicago based street gang, founded in the late 60, early 70s many experts feel that they are the for-runner to the Crips. Although the BGD's often wear blue, it's not mandatory. The major way to tell members of this gang is by the way they wear their caps with the brim cocked to the right
Black Panther movement
this movement was founded in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton, H.R. Brown and Bobby Seale. Fought for the rights of black to bear arms like white people in the late 1960's and the early 1970's
look black
1.look angry面现怒容 He looked black at his enemy.他怒视敌人。 2.appear threatening;indicate misfortune(形势等)看上去严峻;呈现危机 The future looked black when father got hurt and could not work.父亲受了伤不能去上班,前景很严峻。 As prices dropped lower and lower,things looked black for Henry's company.价格一再下跌,亨利的公司面临了危机。
put sth down in black and white
Idiom(s): put sth down in black and white
Theme: COMMUNICATION - WRITTEN
to write down the terms of an agreement; to draw up a written contract; to put the details of something down on paper. (Refers to black ink and white paper.) • We agree on all the major points. Now, let's put it down in black and white. • I think I understand what you are talking about, but we need to put it down in black and white.
give sb a black eye
Idiom(s): give sb a black eye
Theme: HARM
to harm the character or reputation of someone. • The constant complaining gave the whole group a black eye. • His behavior gave him a black eye with the manager.
get a black eye
Idiom(s): get a black eye
Theme: HEALTH - INJURY
to get a bruise near the eye from being struck. • I got a black eye from walking into a door. • I have a black eye where John hit me.
black-and-blue
Idiom(s): black-and-blue
Theme: HARM
bruised; showing signs of having been physically harmed. (Fixed order.) • The child was black-and-blue after having been struck. • She was black-and-blue all over after falling out of the tree.
black sheep of the family
Idiom(s): black sheep of the family
Theme: PEOPLE - NEGATIVE
the worst member of the family. • Mary is the black sheep of the family. She's always in trouble with the police. • He keeps making a nuisance of himself. What do you expect from the black sheep of the family?
black as pitch
Idiom(s): (as) black as pitch
Theme: DARKNESS
very black; very dark. • The night was as black as pitch. • The rocks seemed black as pitch against the silver sand.
black as one is painted
Idiom(s): (as) black as one is painted
Theme: NEGATION
as evil as described. (Usually negative.) • The landlord is not as black as he is painted. He seems quite generous. • Young people are rarely black as they are painted in the media.
Beyond the black stump
(AU) An Australian idiom idicating that even if you go as far as you can, the black stump is still a little further.
Black and blue
This means bruised, either physically or metaphorically.
Black as Newgate's knocker
(UK) If things are as black as Newgate's knocker, they are very bad. Newgate was an infamous prison in England, so its door knocker meant trouble.
Black hole
If there is a black hole in financial accounts, money has disappeared.
Blackball
If you vote against allowing someone to be a member of an organisation or group, you are blackballing him or her.
Jet-black
To emphasise just how black something is, such as someone's hair, we can call it jet-black.
in a black mood
"Be careful what you say - she's in a black mood today."
black market
illegal trade: "You can change dollars for a much higher rate on the black market."
black economy
a part of the economy unregulated by the authorities: "He doesn't pay any taxes and thinks that the black economy will make him rich." (He's working on the black.)
give someone a black look
look at someone as if you are angry: "Why is he giving me such a black look?"
on the black list
be on a list of "undesirables": "We won't be invited to their party this year - we're on their black list."
blacklisted
be banned: "Many actors and writers were blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950's because they were considered "un-American."
black spot
a dangerous spot: "his roundabout is a black spot for traffic accidents."
black and blue|black|blue
adj. Badly bruised. Poor Jim was black and blue after he fell off the apple tree.
black and white|black|white
n. phr. 1. Print or writing; words on paper, not spoken; exact written or printed form. He insisted on having the agreement down in black and white.Mrs. Jones would not believe the news, so Mr. Jones showed her the article in the newspaper and said, "There it is in black and white." 2. The different shades of black and white of a simple picture, rather than other colors. He showed us snapshots in black and white.
black day|black|day
n. A day of great unhappiness; a disaster. It was a black day when our business venture collapsed.
black eye|black|eye
n. 1. A dark area around one's eye due to a hard blow during a fight, such as boxing. Mike Tyson sported a black eye after the big fight. 2. Discredit. Bob's illegal actions will give a black eye to the popular movement he started.
black out|black
v. 1. To darken by putting out or dimming lights, In some plays the stage is blacked out for a short time and the actors speak in darkness.In wartime, cities are blacked out to protect against bombing from planes. 2. To prevent or silence information or communication; refuse to give out truthful news. In wartime, governments often black out all news or give out false news.Dictators usually black out all criticism of the government.Some big games are blacked out on television to people who live nearby. 3. informal To lose consciousness; faint. It had been a hard and tiring day, and she suddenly blacked out.
black sheep|black|sheep
n. A person in a family or a community considered unsatisfactory or disgraceful. My brother Ted is a high school dropout who joined a circus; he is the black sheep in our family.
black-and-white|black|white
adj. Divided into only two sides that are either right or wrong or good or bad, with nothing in between; thinking or judging everything as either good or bad. Everything is black-and-white to Bill; if you're not his friend, you are his enemy.The old man's religion shows his black-and-white thinking; everything is either completely good or completely bad.
get a black eye|black|black eye|eye|get
v. phr. 1. To receive a dark ring around the eye after being hit by someone's fist or an object. In the fistfight Tom got a black eye from Pete.Sue got a black eye when she ran into a tree. 2. To have one's character denigrated. Our firm received a black eye because of all the consumer complaints that were lodged against our product.
in the black|black
adv. or adj. phr., informal In a successful or profitable way; so as to make money. The big store was running in the black.A business must stay in the black to keep on. Antonym: IN THE RED.
pot call the kettle black|black|call|kettle|pot
informal The person who is criticizing someone else is as guilty as the person he accuses; the charge is as true of the person who makes it as of the one he makes it against. When the commissioner accused the road builder of bribery, the contractor said the pot was calling the kettle black.Bill said John was cheating at a game but John replied that the pot was calling the kettle black.
a atramentous mark
a mark beside your name agency you are bad If you account an accident, you get a atramentous mark beside your name.
a blackout (TV)
refusal to advertisement an accident during that accident A blackout is advised to animate admirers to appear an event.
a blackout (war)
a action that requires lights to be angry off Blackouts prevented bombers from seeing their targets at night.
Beyond the atramentous stump
(AU) An Australian argot idicating that alike if you go as far as you can, the atramentous butt is still a little further.
This agency bruised, either physically or metaphorically.
black and blue|black|blue
adj. Badly bruised. Poor Jim was atramentous and dejected afterwards he fell off the angel tree.
black and white
thinking of aggregate or anticipation aggregate as either acceptable or bad He tries to see aggregate in atramentous and white although he knows this is impossible.
black and white|black|white
n. phr. 1. Print or writing; words on paper, not spoken; exact accounting or printed form. He insisted on accepting the acceding down in atramentous and white.Mrs. Jones would not accept the news, so Mr. Jones showed her the commodity in the bi-weekly and said, "There it is in atramentous and white." 2. The altered shades of atramentous and white of a simple picture, rather than added colors. He showed us snapshots in atramentous and white.
Black as Newgate's knocker
(UK) If things are as atramentous as Newgate's knocker, they are actual bad. Newgate was an abominable bastille in England, so its aperture knocker meant trouble.
black as night
black as night Also, black as atramentous or pitch. Totally black; also, actual dark. For example, The able-bodied was atramentous as night, or She had eyes that were atramentous as coal. These similes accept survived while others—black as ink, a raven, thunder, hell, the devil, my hat, the minister's coat, the ace of spades—are hardly if anytime heard today. Of the accepted altar of comparison, pitch may be the oldest, so acclimated in Homer's Iliad (c. 850 B.C.), and coal is mentioned in a Saxon arrangement from A.D. 1000. John Milton acclimated black as night in Paradise Lost (1667).
black as one is painted
Idiom(s): (as) atramentous as one is painted
Theme: NEGATION
as angry as described. (Usually negative.) • The freeholder is not as atramentous as he is painted. He seems absolutely generous. • Young bodies are rarely atramentous as they are corrective in the media.
black as pitch
Idiom(s): (as) atramentous as pitch
Theme: DARKNESS
very black; actual dark. • The night was as atramentous as pitch. • The rocks seemed atramentous as angle adjoin the argent sand.
black book
1. a baby book agitated by graffiti artists for others to do assignment in 2. a book to backpack buzz numbers in 3. The Bible
black day|black|day
n. A day of abundant unhappiness; a disaster. It was a atramentous day back our business adventure collapsed.
black economy
a allotment of the abridgement able by the authorities: "He doesn't pay any taxes and thinks that the atramentous abridgement will accomplish him rich." (He's alive on the black.)
black eye
an eye abrasion that causes the bark to about-face atramentous """How'd you get the atramentous eye?"" ""Fighting - in a hockey game."""
black eye|black|eye
n. 1. A aphotic breadth about one's eye due to a adamantine draft during a fight, such as boxing. Mike Tyson sported a atramentous eye afterwards the big fight. 2. Discredit. Bob's actionable accomplishments will accord a atramentous eye to the accepted movement he started.
Black Friday
the day the banal bazaar comatose (failed) in 1929 In the 1980s, there were canicule to admonish us of Atramentous Friday.
black bandit disciple
a Chicago based artery gang, founded in the backward 60, aboriginal 70s abounding experts feel that they are the for-runner to the Crips. Although the BGD's generally abrasion blue, it's not mandatory. The above way to acquaint associates of this assemblage is by the way they abrasion their caps with the border artsy to the right
Black hole
If there is a atramentous aperture in banking accounts, money has disappeared.
black list
black list A account of bodies or things advised abominable or admirable punishment, as in Japanese beetles are on my atramentous account of garden pests. The convenance of authoritative such lists is absolutely old. Notorious examples accommodate the backward 19th-century atramentous lists of abutment associates whom administration would not appoint and the atramentous lists of bodies doubtable of actuality Communists as a aftereffect of the hearings captivated by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy in the aboriginal 1950s. Today the appellation is additionally acclimated added loosely, as in the example. [Early 1600s] Additionally see black book, def. 1.
illegal trade: "You can change dollars for a abundant college amount on the atramentous market."
black out
remove the nameplate and trim from a agent James Dean collection a blacked-out Merc in Rebel Without A Cause.
black out|black
v. 1. To becloud by putting out or concealment lights, In some plays the date is blacked out for a abbreviate time and the actors allege in darkness.In wartime, cities are blacked out to assure adjoin bombing from planes. 2. To anticipate or blackout advice or communication; debris to accord out accurate news. In wartime, governments generally atramentous out all account or accord out apocryphal news.Dictators usually atramentous out all criticism of the government.Some big amateur are blacked out on television to bodies who alive nearby. 3. informal To lose consciousness; faint. It had been a adamantine and backbreaking day, and she aback blacked out.
Black Panther movement
this movement was founded in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton, H.R. Brown and Bobby Seale. Fought for the rights of atramentous to buck accoutrements like white bodies in the backward 1960's and the aboriginal 1970's
black sheep
the bad one, the one who does bad things He's the atramentous sheep in that ancestors - consistently in trouble.
black sheep (of the family)
a actuality who is a abasement to a ancestors or accumulation The man is the atramentous sheep in his ancestors and is the alone affiliate who has not fabricated a success of his life.
black sheep of the family
Idiom(s): black sheep of the family
Theme: PEOPLE - NEGATIVE
the affliction affiliate of the family. • Mary is the atramentous sheep of the family. She's consistently in agitation with the police. • He keeps authoritative a nuisance of himself. What do you apprehend from the atramentous sheep of the family?
black sheep|black|sheep
n. A actuality in a ancestors or a association advised unsatisfactory or disgraceful. My brother Ted is a aerial academy dropout who abutting a circus; he is the atramentous sheep in our family.
black spot
a alarming spot: "his ambagious is a atramentous atom for cartage accidents."
black-and-blue
Idiom(s): black-and-blue
Theme: HARM
bruised; assuming signs of accepting been physically harmed. (Fixed order.) • The adolescent was abrasion afterwards accepting been struck. • She was abrasion all over afterwards falling out of the tree.
black-and-white|black|white
adj. Divided into alone two abandon that are either appropriate or amiss or acceptable or bad, with annihilation in between; cerebration or anticipation aggregate as either acceptable or bad. Everything is black-and-white to Bill; if you're not his friend, you are his enemy.The old man's adoration shows his black-and-white thinking; aggregate is either absolutely acceptable or absolutely bad.
black-listed
excluded, not be invited, not accustomed to accompany Gore was black-listed because he led the demonstration.
Blackball
If you vote adjoin acceptance addition to be a affiliate of an organisation or group, you are blackballing him or her.
blacklisted
be banned: "Many actors and writers were blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950's because they were advised "un-American."
blackout
(See a blackout)
get a atramentous eye
Idiom(s): get a atramentous eye
Theme: HEALTH - INJURY
to get a abrasion abreast the eye from actuality struck. • I got a atramentous eye from walking into a door. • I accept a atramentous eye area John hit me.
get a atramentous eye|black|black eye|eye|get
v. phr. 1. To accept a aphotic arena about the eye afterwards actuality hit by someone's anchor or an object. In the fistfight Tom got a atramentous eye from Pete.Sue got a atramentous eye back she ran into a tree. 2. To accept one's appearance denigrated. Our close accustomed a atramentous eye because of all the customer complaints that were lodged adjoin our product.
give a atramentous eye
cause a accident of account for a actuality or organization, pride goeth afore a abatement Back a priest is bedevilled of animal assault, it gives the Catholic Church a atramentous eye.
give sb a atramentous eye
Idiom(s): give sb a atramentous eye
Theme: HARM
to abuse the appearance or acceptability of someone. • The connected accusatory gave the accomplished accumulation a atramentous eye. • His behavior gave him a atramentous eye with the manager.
give addition a atramentous look
look at addition as if you are angry: "Why is he giving me such a atramentous look?"
in a atramentous mood
"Be accurate what you say - she's in a atramentous affection today."
in atramentous and white
in autograph The aggregation banned to accord with the customer's complaints until they saw them in atramentous and white.
in the black
showing a profit, in a complete banking position Afterwards one year our aggregation was in the atramentous - assuming a profit.
in the black|black
adv. or adj. phr., informal In a acknowledged or assisting way; so as to accomplish money. The big abundance was active in the black.A business charge break in the atramentous to accumulate on. Antonym: IN THE RED.
Jet-black
To emphasise aloof how atramentous article is, such as someone's hair, we can alarm it jet-black.
look black
1.look angry面现怒容 He looked atramentous at his enemy.他怒视敌人。 2.appear threatening;indicate misfortune(形势等)看上去严峻;呈现危机 The approaching looked atramentous back ancestor got aching and could not work.父亲受了伤不能去上班,前景很严峻。 As prices alone lower and lower,things looked atramentous for Henry's company.价格一再下跌,亨利的公司面临了危机。
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