black as night

1. Also,. Totally black; also, very dark. For example, The well was black as night, or She had eyes that were black as coal. These similes have survived while others—black as ink, a raven, thunder, hell, the devil, my hat, the minister's coat, the ace of spades—are seldom if ever heard today. Of the current objects of comparison, pitch may be the oldest, so used in Homer's Iliad (c. 850 b.c.), and coal is mentioned in a Saxon manuscript from a.d. 1000. John Milton used black as night in Paradise Lost (1667).

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“Summerhouse” is redolent of the Mediterranean atmosphere of a Highsmith plot: sharp, spicy and humor black as night.

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Passenger pigeons were once so numerous in North America that European settlers described skies turned black as night by their mass migrations.

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It's thick, pompadoured and black as night.

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Amazon’s “Black as Night,” a vampire story for the Black Lives Matter moment, builds its mythology on a history of white supremacy, with a story of a teenage girl fighting vampires in New Orleans.

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“The Manor,” along with the other three films in this slate of Blumhouse films — “Madres,” “Black as Night” and “Bingo Hell” — was made on a shoestring budget as part of the production company’s mission to uplift emerging filmmakers from diverse backgrounds.

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