black as night

Idioms  

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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Example Sentences

Even though it was still morning, the world looked black as night.

From Literature

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Slate

It's thick, pompadoured and black as night.

From Salon

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.

From New York Times