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paint black

Represent someone or something as evil or harmful. This idiom is most often used in a negative context, as in He's not so black as he's been painted. [Late 1500s]

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Nearby words

painkiller, painless, pains, painstaking, paint, paint black, paint bridge, paint horse, paint oneself into a corner, paint pot, paint roller
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