black as the ace of spades
- black as the ace of spades
*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:
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I don't want to go down to the cellar. It's as black as a skillet down there.
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Her hair was black as a stack of black cats.
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After playing in the mud all morning, the children were as black as night.
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The stranger's clothes were all black as pitch.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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