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Under suspicion, in trouble, or out of favor, as in Ever since his brother was accused of fraud, he's been under a cloud . This metaphoric expression calls up the image of a single black cloud hanging over an individual. [c. 1500]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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