big white telephone
A toilet, as a receptacle for vomiting.
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black ace
An elite mafia hitman.
black and tan
A bar, nightclub etc. which had both black and white customers, especially one that featured black entertainers.
black as a dog's guts
Utterly black; pitch-black.
black as coal
Completely black.
black as ink
Completely black; pitch-black.
black as my hat
Synonym of black as your hat
black as Newgate's knocker
Completely black in colour.
black as night
Utterly black; pitch-black.
black as tar
Completely black.
black as the ace of spades
Utterly black; pitch-black.
black as thunder
Very black (especially of a mood, a frown, etc.).
black as your hat
Thoroughly black in color.
black beauty
Synonym of black bomber (“kind of amphetamine capsule”).
black bitch
The trick-taking card game hearts.
black bomber
A form of amphetamine (Durophet capsules).
black cat
To do better than another in some respect; to one up.
black cat energy
Chiefly of women, a self-confident and independent energy.
black cow
A root beer float.
black don't crack
People of African descent tend to wrinkle less with age than people with lighter skin.
black dragon
A hyper-melanistic (all black) Asian water monitor.
black fever
Synonym of jungle fever.
black hog
The Irish shilling of 13 pence, as opposed to the English 'white hog' shilling of 12 pence
black in
To regain or return to consciousness or attentiveness after having blacked out.
black light
Ultraviolet radiation or light.
Black Maria
A police van for transporting prisoners.
black people's time
Synonym of African time or Colored People's Time.
black pill
An opium pill.
black sheep
Shameful person.
black stuff
The drink Guinness.
black up
To become or make (something) black or darker.
black velvet
Australian aboriginal women with whom white men have sex.
black where it counts
Having a large penis.
bôi đen
(verb) to smear black on and dirty or contaminate
bông cải trắng
(noun) cauliflower
bảng đen
(noun) blackboard
bồ câu trắng
white dove or pigeon
China White
α-Methylfentanyl, a recreational drug related to heroin.
chất trắng
(noun) white matter
củ cải trắng
(noun) daikon, the East Asian long white radish, particularly its Vietnamese varieties.
dead white European male
Any of various white male historical figures in art and culture seen to represent racism, sexism, etc. ingrained into Western education, in particular its canon.
dân đen
(noun) commoner; pleb
dâu trắng
(noun) mulberry
February fill dyke, be it black or be it white
The month of February often brings rain or snow.
giấm trắng
(noun) white vinegar
giấy trắng mực đen
in black and white
gấu trắng
(noun) white bear, polar bear (Ursus maritimus)
hai bàn tay trắng
two empty hands
hoa lơ trắng
(noun) cauliflower
hàng trắng
(noun) narcotics; hard drugs (like heroin and meth)
hố đen
(noun) synonym of lỗ đen (“a black hole”) (celestial body)
in the black
Successful financially.
kim loại đen
(noun) ferrous metal
little black dress
A character who is shipped with many other characters.
lo bò trắng răng
to needlessly worry
lòng trắng
(noun) albumen (egg white)
lòng trắng trứng
egg white; egg yolk
lỗ đen
(noun) a black hole (celestial body)
mighty white of you, and variations thereof
"thank you for being fair.
máu trắng
(noun) leukemia
máu đen
(noun) deoxygenated blood
mọi đen
(noun) nigger
mộc nhĩ đen
(noun) Jew's-ear
nghĩa đen
(noun) a literal meaning
nhựa thơm trắng
(noun) frankincense
nói trắng ra
(adverb) to be honest
nước trắng
(noun) plain water
nốt trắng
(noun) half note, minim
nốt đen
(noun) crotchet, quarter note
once you go black, you never go back
Once someone has had sexual intercourse with a black person they will not want to return to having sexual intercourse with nonblack people.
pass up like a white chip
To reject or ignore; to treat as worthless.
play the white man
That someone is attempting to be decent and trustworthy in their actions.
sao lùn trắng
(noun) white dwarf
sao đen
(noun) Hopea odorata
sắc tố đen
(noun) melanin
talk to God on the big white telephone
To vomit into a toilet.
talk to Ralph on the big white telephone
To vomit into a toilet.
tay trắng
(noun) the state of having no money
tay trắng tay đen
(noun) a choosing game similar to rock-paper-scissors, in which each player shows their hand with straight fingers, and palm-up hands ("white hands") beat palm-down hands ("black hands")
thiên nga trắng
(noun) mute swan (Cygnus olor)
thịt đỏ và thịt trắng
red meat and white meat
tim đen
(noun) one's true thoughts
trong trắng
(adjective) pure; clean; unblemished; untarnished; immaculate
trà đen
(noun) black tea
trắng
(adjective) white
trắng bệch
(noun) sickly, chalky, pale white (of complexion)
trắng bốp
(adjective) crisp white, spotless white, pristine white
trắng dã
(adjective) wide open such that too much white is visible (of eyes)
trắng hếu
(adjective) chalky white
trắng lốp
(adjective) bright white; gleaming white; dazzling white
trắng muốt
(adjective) white and smooth; pale and fine; silky
trắng mịn
(adjective) smooth; soft; silky
trắng tay
(adjective) empty-handed (impoverished, having no money or resources)
trắng toát
(adjective) very white in a bad way
trắng trẻo
(adjective) having a fair complexion
trắng trợn
(adverb) barefacedly; shamelessly
trắng xoá
(adjective) uniform white
trắng xóa
(adjective) Traditional tone placement spelling of trắng xoá.
trắng án
(verb) to be acquitted; to be found not guilty
tê giác đen
(noun) black rhinoceros
tương đen
(noun) hoisin sauce
vật đen
(noun) blackbody
white as a ghost
Very white, especially of a person's face as a result of fear.
white as a sheet
Very white or pale, as if suffering from shock.
white as driven snow
extremely white; totally white (of a color).
white boy wasted
Extremely intoxicated from drugs or alcohol.
white chocolate
An attractive white person or people, especially male.
white cross
A tablet of the recreational drug benzedrine.
white fever
Sexual attraction towards health care professionals, particularly doctors and nurses.
white hog
The English shilling of 12 pence, as opposed to the Irish 'black hog' shilling of 13 pence
white horse
A recreational drug in the form of white powder: heroin or cocaine.
white lightning
Illegally distilled whiskey.
white lobster
jettisoned cocaine retrieved by fishermen
white maggot
A field umpire.
white out
To hide an error or other material on a surface by covering it with correcting fluid.
white party
The use of cocaine with other people
White People's time
A system of time ascribed to white people, to account for their supposed tendency to put a high value on being on time and rigorous about scheduling, usually when contrasted with Colored People's Time or a similar term.
white smoke
The drug methamphetamine.
white up
To become or make (something) white.
xã hội đen
(noun) thugs, gangsters, mafia members
ăn trắng mặc trơn
to live a life of leisure, comfort, and wealth
Đen tình, đỏ bạc
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
đen
(adjective) of the color black
đen kịt
(adjective) jet-black
đen sì
(adjective) very black with an almost grayish tint
đen thui
(adjective) very black in a bad way
đen tuyền
(adjective) jet-black
đen đúa
(adjective) having a dark complexion
đen đỏ
(noun) alternative form of đỏ đen
đen đủi
(adjective) dark and ugly
đậu trắng
(noun) Black-eyed pea.
đậu đen
(noun) black bean
đỏ đen
(noun) luck and misluck
a white elephant
Some possession the expense or responsibility of which is more than it is worth.
a white lie
A conventional lie, such as telling a caller that Mrs A. or Mrs. B. is not at home, meaning not "at home" to that particu- lar caller.
a white man
A thoroughly straight- forward and honourable man.
a white night
A sleepless night; the French have the phrase Passer une nuit blanche.
a white squall
One which produces no diminution of light, in contradistinction to a black squall, in which the clouds are black and heavy.
beaten black and blue
So that the skin is black and blue with the marks of the beating.
beyond the black stump
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
black a-se
A copper or kettle. The pot calls the kettle black a-se. Cant.
Black Agnes
The palfrey of Mary Queen of Scots, given her by her brother Moray, and named after Agnes of Dunbar.
black and blue
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
Black and Tans
Members of the irregular force enlisted in 1920 for service in Ireland as auxiliaries to the Royal Irish Constabulary. So called because their original uniform was the army khaki with the black leather accoutre- ments of the R.
black and white
clear and straightforward
Black Arl
The art practised by conjurors, wizards, and others who professed to have dealings with the devil; so called from the idea that necromancy (<?.v.) was connected with the Lat. niger, black.
black art
The art of picking a lock. Cant.
Black Assize
July 6th, 1 577, when a putrid pestilence broke out at Oxford during the time of assize. The chief baron, the sheriff, and a large number of the Oxford gentry (some accounts say 300) died.
black babies
difficult or unpleasant tasks
Black Bess
The famous mare ridden by the highwayman Dick Turpin, which, tradition says, carried him from London to York.
black book
He is down in the black book, i.e. has a stain in his character. A black book is keep in most regiments, wherein the names of all persons sentenced to punishment are recorded.
Black Book of the Admiralty
An old navy code, said to have been compiled in the reign of Edward III.
Black Book of the Exchequer
An official account of the royal revenues, payments, perquisites, etc., in the reign of Henry II.
black books
To be in my black books. In bad odour; in disgrace; out of favour. A black book is a book recording the names of those who are in disgrace or have merited punishment. Amherst, in his Terrce Filius^ or the Secret History of the Universities of Oxford (1726), speaks of the Proctor's black book, and tells us that no one can proceed to a degree whose name is found there.
Black Brunswickers
A corps of 700 volunteer hussars under the command of Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick, who had been forbidden by Napoleon to succeed to his father's dukedom. They were called "Black" because they wore mourning for the deceased Duke. Frederick William fell at Quatre-Bas, 1815.
black cap
A small square of black cloth. This is worn by a judge when he passes sentence of death on a prisoner; it is part of the judge's full dress, and is also worn on 'November 9th, when the new Lord Mayor takes the oath at the Law Courts.
Black Cattle
Negro slaves. BIRDS, and see BLACK Ox. Black Country, The.
black dark
nighttime.
black day
A day of disaster or misfortune
Black Death
A plague which ravaged Europe in 1348-51; it was a putrid typhus, in which the body rapidly turned black. It reached England in 1349, and is said to have carried off twenty-five millions (one fourth of the population) in Europe alone, while in Asia and Africa the mortality was even greater.
black diamonds
Coals; talented persons of dingy or unpolished exterior; rough jewels.
Black Diamonds
Coals Coals and dia- monds are both forms of carbon. Black Dog. See DOG.
Black Doll
The sign of a marine store shop. The doll was a dummy dressed to indicate that cast-off garments were bought. See DOLLY SHOP.
Black Douglas
Sir William Douglas, lord of Nithsdale, who died about 1392.
black eye
We gave the bottle a black eye, i.e. drank it almost up. He cannot say black is the white of my eye; he cannot point out a blot in my character.
black fly
The greatest drawback on the farmer is the black fly, i.e. the parson who takes tithe of the harvest.
Black Friars
The Dominican friars; so called from their black cloaks.
Black Friday
December 6th, 1745, the day on which the news arrived in London that the Pretender had reached Derby; also May 10th, 1886, when widespread panic was caused by Overend, Gurney and Co., the brokers, suspending payment.
Black Game
Heath-fowl; in contra-dis- tinction to red game, as grouse. The male bird is called a blackcock.
Black Genevan
A black preaching gown, formerly used in many Anglican churches, and still used by Nonconformists. So called from Geneva, where Calvin preached in such a robe.
black gold
Oil, especially crude oil, due to its high value
black guard
A shabby, mean fellow; a term said to be derived from a number of dirty, tattered roguish boys, who attended at the Horse Guards, and Parade in St. James's Park, to black the boots and shoes of the soldiers, or to do any other dirty offices. These, from their constant attendance about the time of guard mounting, were nick-named the black-guards.
Black Hand
A lawless secret society, formerly active in the U.S.A.; most of the members were Italians.
black hat
A hacker who breaks into computers for malicious purposes
Black Horse
The 7th Dragoon Guards, or 'the Princess Royal's Dragoon Guards " Their "facings" are black. Also called Strawboots," "The Blacks.
black in the face
Extremely angry. The face is discoloured with passion or distress.
black indies
Newcastle upon Tyne, whose rich coal mines prove an Indies to the proprietors.
black jack
A nick name given to the Recorder by the Thieves.
black jack
A large leather gotch, or can, lor beer and ale, so called from the outside being tarred.
black joke
A popular tune to a song, having for the burden, "Her black joke and belly so white:" figuratively the black joke signifies the monosyllable. See MONOSYLLABLE.
black letter
The Gothic or German type which, in the early days of printing, was the type in commonest use. The term came into use about 1600, because of its heavy, black appearance in comparison with roman type.
black letter day
An unlucky day; one to be recalled with regret. m The Romans marked their unlucky days with a piece of black charcoal, and their lucky ones with white chalk, but the allusion here is to the old liturgical calendars in which the saints' days and festivals are distinguished by being printed in red.
black lie
A deliberate and harmful falsehood
black list
A list of persons in disgrace, or who have incurred censure or punishment; a list of bankrupts for the private guidance of the mercantile community. See BLACK BOOKS.
Black Maria
The van which conveys prisoners from the police courts to jail. There is an unsupported tradition that the term originated in America. Maria Lee, a negress of great size and strength, kept a sailors' boarding house in Boston, and when constables required help it was a common thing to send for "Black Maria," who soon collared the refractory and led them to the lock-up.
black mark
A negative comment or criticism
black market
Illicit trade of goods or services
black market
A phrase that came into use during World War II, to describe illicit dealing in rationed goods.
Black Mass
This is the name given to the sacrilegious mass said by diabolists in which the Devil was invoked in place of God and various obscene rites performed in ridicule of the proper ceremony.
black monday
The first Monday after the school-boys holidays, or breaking up, when they are to go to school, and produce or repeat the tasks set them.
Black Monday
Easter Monday, April 14th, 1360, was so called. Edward III was with his army lying before Paris, and the day was so dark, with mist and hail, so bitterly cold and so windy, that many of his horses and men died. Monday after Easter holidays is called "Black Monday," in allusion to this fatal day.
black or white
Completely one way or the other, with no middle ground
black out
to lose consciousness or memory
black over Bill's mother's
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
black ox
The black ox has trod on his foot — i.e. misfortune has come to him. Black oxen were sacrificed to Pluto and other infernal deities.
black oxide
a dark corrosion-resistant coating
Black Parliament
This is the name often given to the Parliament that was opened in Nov., 1529, for the purpose of furthering Henry VIII's seizing and consolidating his thefts of Church property. During the six and a half years of its existence it carried out the king's arbitrary orders with a servility no parliament has shown before or since.
Black Prince
Edward, Prince of Wales (1330-76), eldest son of Edward III. Froissart says he was "styled black by terror of his arms" (c. 169). Strutt confirms this saying: "for his martial deeds surnamed Black tne Prince" (Antiquities). Meyrick says there is not the slightest proof that he ever wore black armour, and, indeed, there is indirect proof against the supposition. Thus, there was a picture on the wall of St.
black psalm
To sing the black psalm; to cry: a saying used to children.
black rider
a mysterious or threatening figure