paint black

paint black

Represent someone or something as evil or harmful. This idiom is most often used in a negative context, as in He's not so black as he's been painted. [Late 1500s]

See also: black, paint

Common Names:

Name	Gender	Pronounced	Usage
MÁEl Sechlainn		-	Ancient Irish
Oberon		O-bər-ahn (English)	Literature
Adolfo		ah-DHOL-fo (Spanish)	Italian, Spanish
Ovidio		-	Italian, Spanish
LorÁNd		-	Hungarian
ŠTefica		-	Croatian

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