| 单词 | black as one's hat |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) black as one's (also a) hat P6. (as) black as one's (also a) hat: of a deep black colour; completely black.With reference to the usual colour of formal hats (e.g. top hats, bowler hats, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as other typical substances as black as one's hat1636 pit-black1871 Bible-blacka1953 1636 H. Burton Divine Trag. 45 The Physicians never seeing the like before, his flesh and kidnies were as black as an hat. 1683 True Relation Many Sad & Lamentable Accidents 3 He lay in the street for dead, all over him being as black as a hat. 1710 Brit. Apollo 1–3 Nov. Three Stumps in her Head..as Black as my Hat. 1799 London Chron. 4 Apr. 324/3 His face was as black as a hat, and his mouth full of blood. 1843 New Monthly Mag. Jan. 2 Smoked with a taper, till black as a hat. 1876 Chatterbox 51/1 She was a queer little creature, like a gipsy, with..eyes as black as my hat. 1911 Med. Times (N.Y.) Nov. 323/2 The next morning the skin of the whole thigh..was as black as my hat. 1987 E. Newby Round Ireland in Low Gear (1988) ii. 25 Outside it was still as black as your hat with a howling wind and torrential rain. 2002 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 27 Aug. (Features section) 30 The seeds looked lovely at harvest—black as a hat, every last grain. < as lemmas |
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