black cab
noun
A black taxicab; (now usually) (British ) a type of taxi, originally and usually (but now not always) black, which may be hailed in the street and can accommodate up to five passengers in the rear, separated from the driver's seat by a partition (officially called Hackney cab).
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in Cosmopolitan.
- aslope
- a slow burn
- as luck would have it
- ASM
- a smack in the face (or eye)
- (as) mad as a box of frogs
- (as) mad as a gum tree full of galahs
- (as) mad as a hatter
- (as) mad as a March hare
- (as) mad as a meat axe
- a small fortune
- as many
- Asmara
- Asmera
- (as) merry (or lively) as a grig
- as much
- (as) much as
- Asn
- as near as
- as near as dammit (or damn it)
- as near as damn it
- (as) nice (or sweet) as pie
- a snowball's chance (in hell)
- (as) nutty as a fruitcake
- asocial