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paint black
Idioms and Phrases
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]Example Sentences
To make her cheeks red and paint black lines in her eyes; then paint her lips and fingers red—these things hid her.
No, he puts on his war paint—black suit and top hat most hideous—calls on his lawyer in a frantic passion, and goes to law!
“Ay, it is none so difficult to paint black white,” saith Aunt Joyce.
If you cannot paint black cloth you could not have painted silken doublet.
She does not paint black and white, but with human tints only in light and shadow.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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