| 单词 | white-on-white |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite-on-white Phrases P1. In similative and comparative phrases, sometimes hyperbolical, and frequently with connotations of purity, esp. as white as (or whiter than) snow, milk (cf. snow-white adj. and n., milk-white adj. and n.), as white as lily flower, as white as glass, as white as a swan (cf. swan-white adj.), as white as whale's bone, as white as flour, as white as a neep, as white as wool, as white as curds, and (in sense A. 4) as white as a cloth, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost. ΚΠ OE St. Mary of Egypt (Julius) (2002) 72 Þa loccas hire heafdes wæron swa hwite swa wull [L. ut lana albos]. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 2 Hys reaf wæron swa hwite swa snaw [L. alba sicut nix]. OE tr. Wonders of East (Tiber.) §21. 196 Beoð þa earan swiðe leohte & hi beoð an lichoman swa hwite swa meolc [L. quasi lacteo]. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 83 (MED) Ðanne wurð ic iclansed of alle mine sennes, and hwittere ðane ani snaw. c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) 15 (MED) He was whit so þe flur [a1350 Harl. so whit so eny lylye flour]. c1300 St. Faith (Laud) 80 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 85 (MED) A coluere þare cam, so ȝwijt so milk. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10380 Ten lambes, quitte als milk. a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Galba) (1907) 78 (MED) Þe thrid maister was litel man Faire of chere and white als swan. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 2081 (MED) Scheo hadde a mayden childe: Sabren hit highte, as whit as glas. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) viii. 232 Hawbrekis, that war quhit as flour. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2395 in Poems (1981) 89 Quhyte as ane neip and round als as ane seill. 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 185 A saill als quhite as blossum vpon spray. 1512–13 Syr Degore (de Worde) sig. A The kynge had..A doughter as whyte as whalles bone. 1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 63 Giff thay be reid as purpur neuertheles yai sal be quhit as wow. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A3v Vpon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter. 1651 C. Gerbier Elogium Heroinum 75 Their Necks as white as Snow, their Breast as pure as Allabaster. 1727 J. Gay New Song Similes in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. 210 As smooth as Glass, as white as Curds. 1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting i. ii. 46 She..looks as white as a cloth. 1837 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 48 118 The whole surface of the body was covered with very minute scales as white as flour, so that the patient was named the white man, ‘hvita man’. 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay iv. 63 I am as white as driven snow compared to some blackguards. 1897 H. Caine Christian iii. xii. 311 The man..turned white as a ghost. 1923 Humorist 29 Sept. 228/1 There he was leaning against the mantelpiece, as white as a sheet. 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Dec. b1 I went in the bathroom and I started crying and then I looked in the mirror and I was white as a ghost. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Oct. d8/5 A coiling flower, as white as porcelain, wound on a vine around a black urn. P2. a. In allusive or proverbial phrases, chiefly in collocation with black.a white hen's chick: see white hen n. at Compounds 1f. ΚΠ c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 148 Swyþe fayr þyng hys þat wyte, And þer by-syde blok [read blak] a lyte, Wel ydryȝt [read ydyȝt]; Þe wyte þe uayrer hyt makeþ [Konrath corrects to þe wyte hyt þe uayrer makeþ]. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. l. 436 And wherby wote men whiche is whyte if alle þinge blake were? a1450 (?1420) J. Lydgate Temple of Glas (Tanner) (1891) l. 1250 White is whitter, if it be set bi blak. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell sig. Eiiv The whyte apperyth the better for the black. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hiiv Were not you as good than to say, the crow is whight. 1586 E. Hoby tr. M. Coignet Polit. Disc. Trueth xliv. 193 And Ammian thought that it was as vnpossible, to find out in all Asia a true Lawyer as a white Crow. 1619 Two Wise Men & All Rest Fooles vii. i. 91 Yes, contrarie enough, as white is to blacke. 1765 T. Percy Reliques Eng. Poetry I. 44 Everye white will have its blacke, And everye sweete its sowre. 1830 C. Bury Jrnl. of Heart 146 But mark the sequel; every white has its black, and every sweet its sour. 1867 B. Brierley Marlocks of Merriton 32 As different he'll be to what he wur when theau see'd him last, as black is to white. a1963 W. C. Williams Embodiment of Knowl. (1977) 170 We say opposite as black is to white, as yes is to no, as motion is to no motion. 1980 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 8 Mar. 512 It has to be an individual or a group that is to el Supremo as white is to black. 2005 Callaloo 28 344 As different from Marder as black from white, or night from day. b. to call white black, to turn white into black (also to call black white, to turn black into white and variants): to call or make something the opposite of what it really is; to lie. ΚΠ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 2188 (MED) Of feigned wordes make him wene That blak is whyt and blew is grene. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 14394 (MED) He wyl make an Argument..And preue also that whyht ys blak. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. x. sig. B.viiiv More coumfort may he haue in his heart, that where whyte is called blacke..abydeth by the trueth. 1570 L. Tomson Answere Assertions Fecknam f. 74v Put not a Lyons skin vppon an Asse. Call white, white: and blacke, blacke: good, good: and bad, bad. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse To Rdr. sig. ☞7 Making black of white, Chalke of Cheese. 1602 J. Darrell Replie to Answer I. Deacon & I. Walker i. 1 To perswade that white is blacke, that fire is Ice, that it is dark night in the cleare sunshine. a1637 N. Ferrar tr. J. de Valdés 110 Considerations (1638) xv. 35 A Christian person should alwaies stand upon his guard touching this point, in such manner, that he come not to be couzened with the white for the black, nor the black for the white. 1672 W. Walker Paroemiologia Anglo-Lat. 33 They turn black into white, and white into black. Nigra in candida vertunt, Juv. 1709 A. Pope Chaucer's January & May in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 187 Nay, if my Lord affirm'd that Black was White, My Word was this; Your Honour's in the right. 1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 118 They taul sic flaws, An' wantet to mak' black o' white, Without a cause. 1829 R. Southey All for Love ix. 100 To prove..That right is wrong, and wrong is right, And white is black, and black is white. 1862 M. B. Betham-Edwards John & I III. i. 9 As well endeavour to show that black is white, as to prove that any temptations you may have had can in the smallest degree palliate you. 1896 B. L. Farjeon Betrayal of John Fordham iv. 299 It don't make black white, 'cause I'm a wrong 'un. 1901 H. B. Workman Dawn Reformation I. v. 254 The art of making black into white by rules of logic was nowhere more highly esteemed than in the Universities of Paris and Oxford. 1979 Maclean's 7 May 64/1 Great stuff! Black is white. Bad is good. Newspeak lives. 2011 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 28 June 2 They call white, black, and black, white, and live in a topsy-turvy world. But I have to take them seriously. c. to wash a Negro (also blackamoor, Egyptian, Ethiopian) white and variants: (chiefly in negative contexts) to (attempt to) change a person's fundamental nature. Now offensive and rare. [Compare German den Mohren weiß baden, den Mohren weiß waschen (17th cent.).] ΚΠ 1581 T. Howell His Deuises sig. C.ijv Lyke one that washeth a black a Moore white. 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore i. 89 This is the Blackamore that by washing was turned white. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. v. §5 I think they have striven if not to make an Ethiopian white, yet an Ægyptian to speak truth concerning his own Country. 1754 S. Bowden Poems Var. Subj. 125 Fruitless the toil, to wash the negro white,To polish boors, or make a blockhead bright. a1845 T. Hood Black Job in Wks. (1862–3) VI. 166 We've scrubb'd the negroes till we've nearly killed 'em, And finding that we cannot wash them white, But still their nigritude offends the sight. 1858 U.S. Democratic Rev. Feb. 162 No one knew better than that brave old Commodore, that to make good sailors out of bad boys, was much like an attempt to wash a negro white. 1875 Harper's Mag. Apr. 775/2 Forbear! 'tis useless trying To wash a negro white; You can not bring the sunrise By shouting for the light. 2005 Afr. News (Nexis) 4 Jan. Later, writers like Snowden perpetuated the myth of Africans being dirty by such racistic expressions like ‘To wash an Ethiopian white’, implying blackness represented dirt which one could not wash white (clean). P3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others sitisota1400 papsea1450 half-bowl1477 pluck at the crow1523 white and black1555 running game1581 blow-pointa1586 hot cocklesa1586 one penny1585 cockelty bread1595 pouch1600 venter-point1600 hinch-pinch1603 hardhead1606 poor and rich1621 rowland-hoe1622 hubbub1634 handicap?a1653 owl1653 ostomachy1656 prelledsa1660 quarter-spellsa1660 yert-point1659 bob-her1702 score1710 parson has lost his cloak1712 drop (also throw) (the) handkerchief1754 French Fox1759 goal1765 warpling o' the green1768 start1788 kiss-in-the-ring1801 steal-clothes1809 steal-coat1816 petits paquets1821 bocce1828 graces1831 Jack-in-the-box1836 hot hand1849 sparrow-mumbling1852 Aunt Sally1858 gossip1880 Tambaroora1882 spoof1884 fishpond1892 nim1901 diabolo1906 Kim's game1908 beaver1910 treasure-hunt1913 roll-down1915 rock scissors paper1927 scissors cut paper1927 scissors game1927 the dozens1928 toad in the hole1930 game1932 scissors paper stone1932 Roshambo1936 Marco Polo1938 scavenger hunt1940 skish1940 rock paper scissors1947 to play chicken1949 sounding1962 joning1970 arcade game1978 1555 Acts 2 & 3 Philip & Mary c. 9. sig. Eii Bowlyng, tenise, disyng, whyte and blacke, making and marring, and other vnlawfull games. P4. a. to turn up (also throw up, show) the whites of one's eyes and variants: to roll one's eyes upwards or open them wide, so that the whites are more visible, esp. in a show of devotion or prayer, or in death, astonishment, horror, anger, etc. ΚΠ J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 1739 Amoryus vpward had turnyd the qwyght Off hys eyn:..qwan sche sey hym ded Her chekys sche gan tere. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2053 in Poems (1981) 79 The quhyte he turnit vp off his ene tuay. 1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 280 Enthronizing graue zeale and religion on the eleuated whites of their eyes. 1657 P. Heylyn Ecclesia Vindicata 349 Lifting up both his hands, and whites to heaven. 1662 I. T. Haughton's Grim the Collier iii. 43 in Gratiæ Theatrales He, poor Heart, no sooner heard my newes, But turns me up his Whites, and falls flat down. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Signs of Sickness When a Sick Horse turns up the Whites of his Eyes above, you may conclude that he is in Pain. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 44 Mrs. Tabitha..threw up the whites of her eyes, as if in the act of ejaculation. 1796 J. Wolcot Satire in Wks. (1812) III. 409 Flimsy logic to surprise And raise the whites of Country Members' eyes. 1822 T. L. Peacock Maid Marian x. 140 He remained gasping, with his mouth open, his lips quivering, his hands clasped together, and the whites of his eyes turned up towards the prince with an expression most ruefully imploring. 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xvii He shewed the whites of his eyes like a wall-eyed horse. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xi. 319 The Professor showed the whites of his eyes devoutly. 1887 H. R. Haggard She v. 64 Job turned up the whites of his eyes and groaned, and the Arab murmured ‘Allah’, and groaned also. 1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree viii. 108 We approached the colts, and soon had them penned in a corner of the meadow... They stood shining the whites of their eyes at us and quivering. 1989 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Dec. 1491 Silly old Roderick keels over and turns up the whites of his eyes. 1994 D. Healy Goat's Song (1995) 171 Behind his glasses anger opened the white of his eyes as he descended the stairs. b. to say black is the white of a person's eye: to find fault with a person. Cf. black adj. and n. Phrases 3. Now rare. ΚΠ 1742 Select Trials Old-Bailey (new ed.) IV. 194 I have used the Sea in the King's and Merchant's Service, this great while, and defy any Person to say, that Black is the White of my Eye. 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) at Black Eye He cannot say black is the white of my eye; he cannot point out a blot in my character. 1828 G. Smeeton Doings in London 85 As Mother Cole said.., ‘no one could say black was the white of her Eye’. 1934 P. O'Donnell On Edge of Stream 191 I'd like meself to..have the pleasure of knocking down the man who'd say black was the white of his eye. c. until you see the whites of their eyes and variants: (originally and chiefly as part of a command in armed combat) until you are close enough to shoot without fear of missing your target or wasting ammunition; also in extended use. [The phrase is often attributed to either of the American officers Colonel William Prescott (1726–95) or General Israel Putnam (1718–90) at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 (compare quot. 1818). Similar expressions in a number of other European languages are also anecdotally attributed to 18th-cent. military commanders; however, German parallels are attested from as early as the early 17th cent. (see J. Grimm & W. Grimm Deutsches Wörterbuch at weisz D. 1a).] ΚΠ 1818 S. Swett Hist. Bunker Hill Battle in D. Humphreys Ess. Life I. Putnam App. 230 Powder was scarce and must not be wasted. They should not fire at the enemy till they saw the white of their eyes. 1877 Shield 17 Nov. 287/2 One of the best ways of approaching members of Parliament on this question will be to approach them in such a manner that we may see the whites of their eyes. (Laughter.) 1889 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 77 And when he could spy the white of her [sc. the mare's] eye, he made the pistol crack. 1900 Glasgow Herald 9 Feb. 8/2 They repeatedly showed themselves.., evidently trying to draw our fire.., but Macdonald's order was ‘Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes.’ 1940 L. Hart Happy Hunting Horn in D. Hart & R. Kimball Compl. Lyrics L. Hart (1976) 272/2 Lie in ambush, but be sure when You see the whites of their eyes—don't shoot! 1961 Times 11 Dec. 4/5 Croston centred from the left wing with the reverse stick and Fentum was unmarked and close enough to see the whites of Cahill's eyes. 2004 Z. Unger Working Fire v. 72 Fighting fire is the ‘whites of the eye’ thing: If you shoot water too soon, the only effect will be to..cause the smoke at the ceiling to bank down to the floor. P5. whiter than white: extremely white; frequently figurative: morally pure, having an untarnished reputation.Popularized in the 20th cent. as an advertising slogan for Persil washing powder. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > brilliantly white whiter than white1597 incandent1854 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. D Teaching the sheets a whiter hew then white. View more context for this quotation] 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. lxxi. 104 This Iacint is of a pleasant white colour tending to yellownesse, tipped about the hollow part with white, whiter than white it selfe. 1658 J. Mennes & J. Smith Wit Restor'd 119 Whiter than white, if you would pourtray ought, Display her neck pure as the purest thought. 1826 M. S. Stanhope Almack's (ed. 2) III. ii. 82 The first thing I saw was my Lord, fast asleep, in his gouty chair; Lady Jemima, whiter than white, singing some lack-a-daisical ballad, very much out of tune..and Miss Bevel. 1872 J. Hatton Valley Poppies I. xiii. 232 Her white teeth were whiter than white against the contrast of her lips and her brown glowing cheeks. 1949 D. Smith I capture Castle (U.K. ed.) vii. 95 The strangeness of her face: that look she has of belonging to a whiter-than-white race. 1962 Daily Tel. 28 June 1/3 He is said to have said that the report made out the BBC to be ‘whiter than white’. 1974 ‘A. Garve’ File on Lester vii. 31 Where their leaders are concerned, the masses are puritan—they expect standards of personal behaviour whiter than white. 1979 K. Bonfiglioli After You with Pistol xxii. 180 My knuckles were now Whiter-Than-White. 2009 Daily Tel. 1 Apr. 22/3 We are trapped in a revolving door. A government sinks into sleaze. An opposition party promises that it will not just be whiter than white; it will be seen to be whiter than white. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > discharge [verb (intransitive)] > cough or spit up to spit white1600 yesk1664 expectorate1882 1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie iii. ii. sig. E2 Ri...We dyd but a little parboile our liuers, they haue sod theyrs in sacke these fortie yeeres. Hal. That makes them spit white broth as they doo.] 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 212 If it be a hot day, & I brandish any thing but a bottle. I would I might neuer spit white again. View more context for this quotation 1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir iii. sig. H Had I bin a Pagan stil, I could not haue spit white for want of drinke. 1664 tr. F. Plater et al. Golden Pract. Physick (new ed.) ii. xiii. 108 They that are thus, spet white and froathy and speak with difficulty and stammer, because their Tongues (as they say) stick to their mouthes. 1784 J. Stockdale in Shakspeare: Dramatic Wks. 478 (note) To spit white, being the consequence of inward heat. P7. in the white: denoting cloth in an undyed state; hence of other manufactured articles in an unfinished state. Cf. quot. 1846 at sense A. 2a. ΚΠ 1808 J. Rogerson Diary 16 Nov. in W. B. Crump Leeds Woollen Industry 1780–1820 (1931) 89 A great call for Cloth of a very thin nature called pellin Cloth they are made in the White. 1811 J. Taylor Remarks Present State Devon in T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (new ed.) p. xxv The articles..are merely manufactured here, and sent in the white to London, where they are dyed. 1876 F. S. Williams Midland Railway 636 Furniture, made in London, but unfinished,—‘in the white’ it is called. 1965 Wireless World July 9 (advt.) This range includes..ready-assembled cabinets in the white for finish to own requirements. 1971 Country Life 10 June 1416/2 James Giles..bought consignments of Worcester porcelain in the white for decorating to commission. 2005 Econ. Hist. Rev. 58 706 The edict was followed by a second measure of 19 January 1770, extending the import ban to cloth in the white. P8. to bleed white: (a) intransitive (hyperbolically) to shed colourless blood (rare); (b) [compare French †saigner jusqu'au blanc (1798), †saigner au blanc (1845), saigner à blanc (1863)] transitive to drain completely of resources (cf. bleed v. 10). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (intransitive)] > be injured > be wounded > shed blood bleeda1300 to weep (tears of) blood1593 to bleed white1854 the mind > possession > taking > extortion > practise extortion on [verb (transitive)] ransom?a1425 to poll and pill1528 exact1534 bloodsuck?1541 extort1561 rack1576 flay1584 shave1606 wire-draw1616 punisha1626 sponge1631 squeeze1639 screwa1643 to screw up1655 bleed1680 torture1687 to screw down1725 to shake down1872 to squeeze (someone) until the pips squeak1918 to bleed white1935 rent1956 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. ii. 7 His skin was so unwholesomely deficient in the natural tinge, that he looked as though, if he were cut, he would bleed white. 1898 Advocate of Peace 60 83/1 The navy much be kept equal to any other two navies of the world, if every other department of the public service is robbed and the people bled white through excessive taxation. 1935 Sabbath School Worker Nov. 6/1 ‘There are too many appeals for money’, the people are ‘bled white’, and ‘we can't give another penny’. 1945 R. Chandler in R. Chandler Speaking (1966) 113 It is the writers' own weakness as craftsmen that permits the superior egos to bleed them white of initiative, imagination, and integrity. 1982 ‘W. Haggard’ Mischief-makers i. 16 Her husband had been a wealthy man, the lady's solicitors sharp and ruthless, and her husband had been bled white to get rid of her. 2001 Bizarre July 97/1 She's bleeding us white. P9. white-on-white. a. Denoting articles made of white cloth with a white woven-in or embroidered design; also in extended use, of a person's complexion. ΚΠ 1874 Manufacturer & Builder Dec. 282/1 Suppose the highest art had been reached, and the weaver had succeeded in producing, white on white, or gray on gray, a real artistic picture of considerable merit.] 1887 Atalanta Oct. 45 Another late development of the art was the embroidery of white on white, and much labour was expended on linen smocks and caps. 1888 Art Amateur Mar. 99/3 What sort of floss is best used in this white on white embroidery? 1906 Official Gaz. (Manila) (Phillipine Commission) 4 July 436/2 Trimmed with flap braid of black, lustrous color on blue blouse and white on white blouse. 1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. vii. 572 A bow tie of propeller proportions stood out over extra-length collar bills on a white-on-white shirt. 1958 J. Blish Case of Conscience xi. 113 ‘Why don't you give me a chance?’ Michelis said raggedly. Then he turned white-on-white. 1990 Antique Collector Oct. 37/3 A selection of early painted furniture, fine weathervanes, early textiles, including a white on white trepunto quilt. b. Originally U.S. Designating violence, crime, or (less frequently) discrimination in which both perpetrator and victim are white; (sometimes more generally) that occurs between white people. Cf. black-on-black at black adj. and n. Phrases 10. ΚΠ 1971 Chicago Daily Defender 14 Sept. 8/1 White people killing other white people [sc. in Northern Ireland]... That's white on white crime! 1984 New Pittsburgh Courier 4 Feb. 5/4 I would like to see the statistics on white on white crime sometimes, because white people commit a lot of crimes, too. 1990 L. Young in J. Rutherford Identity 200 The possibility that the women might have actually chosen to have a sexual relationship..would disrupt the relative normality of ‘White-on-White’ heterosexual relations. 1991 A. Sachs S. Afr. & Human Rights in Afr. 2 In my lifetime, white-on-white violence in Europe has exceeded by far both in scope and savagery anything practised by Africans against Africans in Africa. 2005 G. McKay Circular Breathing ii. 93 In the new millennium..traditional British racism..has turned on East European refugees and asylum seekers breeding white-on-white racism and violence. P10. whites-only (also white-only): reserved for white people; (also) designating a policy endorsing exclusively white access, etc. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1929 Chicago Defender 26 Jan. ii. 2/2 Since some sort of hospital is necessary, and since the ‘for whites only’ sign is still hung from many American hospitals, the separate one is the only alternative offered St. Louisans.] 1945 Chicago Defender 14 Apr. 2/5 That the ‘whites only’ policy of the war department is still being practiced is further evidenced in an official notice. 1961 Ebony Oct. 80/2 Freezing out the clerk and crowding out the drivers was a minority's way of retaliating for all of the ‘white-only’ want ads it had read and for all of the unread application blanks it had filled out. 1968 Listener 18 July 86/3 In 1958, the Court of Appeal supported the Musicians' Union in their boycott of a whites-only dance-hall in dear old Wolverhampton. 1971 Guardian 29 Sept. 19/2 In Salisbury [Rhodesia], there are perhaps half a dozen ‘Whites Only’ signs—mainly on public lavatories. 1980 Eng. World-wide 1 i. 55 In the 1950's Nassau's whites-only schools, cinemas, and restaurants were desegregated. 2002 Sawubona (S. Afr. Airways In-flight Mag.) Sept. 85 Founded on a whites-only policy, the town became the promised land that would save Africa's ‘white tribe’ from extinction. P11. Originally and chiefly U.S. white-on-black: designating violence, crime, or (less frequently) discrimination in which the perpetrator is white and the victim is black. Cf. black-on-white at black adj. and n. Phrases 11. ΚΠ 1970 J. Jackson in Chicago Daily Defender 21 Feb. 1/1 Black on black crime, especially must stop in order for us to deal with the major issues of white on black crimes. 1989 City Press (Johannesburg) 19 Feb. 9 White on black violence. 1995 New Yorker 27 Mar. 62/3 There is still plenty of racism and discrimination of the traditional white-on-black sort. 2009 T. Epstein Interpreting National Hist. iv. 107 The students discussed working to end racial profiling, white-on-black violence and black-on-black violence. P12. big white telephone n. (also big white phone and variants) slang the bowl of a toilet; originally and chiefly in to talk to Ralph (also God, etc.) on the big white telephone and variants: to vomit into a toilet (cf. ralph v.). ΚΠ 1977 UNC-CH Campus Slang (Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill) (typescript) Apr. 4 Talk to Ralph on the big white telephone, to vomit. 1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1993) 98 I ran back to the squat, hung my head over the toilet and talked to God on the big white telephone. 1990 Independent (Nexis) 2 Dec. 32 It's useful to know that when someone asks the way to a big white telephone what they want is the loo. 2002 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 28 Dec. (Sports section) 7 He was calling Europe all night on the big white phone. < as lemmas |
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