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• as black as a skillet
  очень чёрный (как сковорода)

  Alan's hands were as black as a skillet when he finished repairing his car.
• as black as a stack of black cats
  очень чёрный (как множество чёрных кошек)

  Tina's dress was as black as a stack of black cats.
• as black as a sweep
  очень грязный (как трубочист)

  "Look! You are as black as a sweep! What have you done to your face and hands?"
• as black as coal
  чёрный как смоль

  The man had a dark complexion, and his hair was as black as coal.
• as black as night
  черный как ночь"

  The old house was as black as night when we entered it.
• as black as pitch
  тёмный как ночь

  Approaching the house, we saw that it was as black as night.
• as black as the ace of spades
  очень чёрный (как негр)

  When she returned from the beach, she was as black as the ace of spades.
• black and blue
  (быть) в синяках

  I bruised my arm and it was black and blue for a long time.
• black and white
  видеть что-либо только в чёрно-белым свете

  My friend Melanie sees everything only in black and white.
• black box
  чёрный ящик

  After the airplane crash the investigators tried to find the black box of the airplane.
• black eye
  синяк под глазом

  When the boys appeared in the room, one of them had a black eye and the other a cut lip; they had been fighting.
• black market
  чёрный рынок

  We bought a few things at the black market.
• black out
  сделать затемнение

  I drew the curtains to black out the bedroom so that the rays of the sun wouldn't wake me up.
• blackout
  временная задержка информации, засекреченность

  The police decided to have a blackout regarding the information related to the investigation of the murder.
• in (someone's) black books
  быть в немилости у кого-либо

  Mr. Blackberry has been in his wife's black books since he started to come home late.
• pitch-black
  очень темно, "хоть глаз выколи"

  All the shutters were closed, and it was pitch-black in the room.
• pot calling the kettle black
  кто бы говорил, а ты бы помалкивал (оба хороши)

  "You were as good a son as I was a brother. It's like the pot calling the kettle black."
• put (something) down in black and white
  записать что-либо чёрным по белому

  They told me to put the agreement down in black and white.