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
Nelda		NEL-də	English
Anselm		['ænselm]
Yefet		-	Biblical Hebrew
Dillan		DIL-ən	English (Modern)
Wilfreda		wil-FRED-ə	English (Rare)
Fenton		['fentən]

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