black as a stack of black cats

black as a stack of black cats
*black as a skillet & *black as a stack of black cats & *black as a sweep & *black as coal & *black as night & *black as pitch & *black as the ace of spades
completely dark or black. (*Also: as \black as a stack of black cats.) •

I don't want to go down to the cellar. It's as black as a skillet down there.

Her hair was black as a stack of black cats.

After playing in the mud all morning, the children were as black as night.

The stranger's clothes were all black as pitch.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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