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black

mod. without cream or milk. (Said of coffee.) Black coffee, good and hot, please.

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• (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 ink
• (as) black as Newgate's knocker
• (as) black as the devil
• (as) black as the minister's coat
• (as) black as thunder
• a black day
• a black mark
• as clear as black and white
• back of the black stump
• be (not) as black as (someone/something) is painted
• be as black as are is painted
• be in the black
• beyond the black stump
• black
• black and blue
• black and white
• black as a skillet
• black as night
• black as one is painted
• black as pitch
• black babies
• black book
• black eye
• Black Friday
• black gold
• black gum
• black hole
• black list
• Black Lives Matter
• black look
• black magic
• Black Maria
• black mark
• black mark beside name
• black on black
• black out
• black rider
• Black Russian
• black sheep
• black sheep of the family
• black stump
• black tie
• black triangle
• black-and-blue
• black-collar workers
• blacklist
• black-silk barge
• devil is not so black as he is painted
• dirty look, give a
• early black
• give a black eye to (someone or something)
• in (someone's) black books
• in black and white
• in the black
• in the red
• little black book
• look black
• not as black as (one) is painted
• of the blackest dye
• once you go black, you never go back
• 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 down in black and white
• swear blind
• the black ox has trod upon (one's) foot
• the black ox has trod upon (one's) toe
• the black sheep
• the new black
• the pot calling the kettle black
• this side of the black stump