Obscure Phrases

Phrases

• A world apart
• After dark (Tia Maria advertising slogan)
• All cats are grey in the dark
• Ankle deep
• As black as Newgate's knocker
• As black as coal
• As black as ink
• As black as pitch
• As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat
• As black as the ace of spades
• As black as thunder
• As black as your hat
• As dark as pitch
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Back In Black (AC/DC album)
• Back To Black (Amy Winehouse song)
• Beat someone black and blue
• Beauty is only skin deep
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Black Beauty (Anna Sewell book)
• Black Friday
• Black Hawk Down (Ewan McGregor movie)
• Black Jack (Nickname of baseball player Jack McDowell)
• Black Jesus (Nickname of basketball player Amare Stoudemire)
• Black Mamba (Nickname of basketball player Kobe Bryant)
• Black Mike (Nickname of baseball player Mickey Cochrane)
• Black Monday
• Black Moses (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Black Thursday
• Black Tuesday
• Black and blue
• Black and white
• Black and white minstrel
• Black and white unite and fight (Political slogan)
• Black art
• Black bomber
• Black box
• Black cadillacs (Canadian military slang term for combat boots)
• Black comedy
• Black dog
• Black economy
• Black flagged
• Black is beautiful
• Black list
• Black magic
• Black mark
• Black market
• Black on black
• Black out
• Black power
• Black sheep of the family
• Black spot
• Black tie
• Black velvet
• Black water rafting
• Boom Boom Pow (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• Born 1820 - Still going strong (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Breed apart
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Cloaked in obscurity
• Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell book)
• Cloud cuckoo land
• Come apart at the seams
• Cyber Black Friday
• Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Dark And Bloody Ground (Nickname of the US state of Kentucky)
• Dark Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Dark before the dawn
• Dark continent
• Dark horse
• Dark humour
• Dark monday
• Dark tourism
• Dark triad (A group of three negative personality traits)
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Throat (Nickname of Mark Felt)
• Deep Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Deep dark secret
• Deep in thought
• Deep linking
• Deep pockets
• Deep sea data diving
• Deep six
• Deep space
• Deep throat
• Deep web (The part of the WWW not visible via standard search engines)
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• Did you get dressed in the dark?
• Dig deep
• Dim view
• Drown out
• Early black
• Every dark cloud has a silver lining
• Fall apart at the seams

• Feel the Velvet (Black Velvet Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Get Off My Cloud (Rolling Stones song)
• Get into deep water
• Go off the deep end
• Grey is new black
• Hazy information
• Hey Mabel, Black Label (Black Label advertising slogan)
• Hidden Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Hidden agenda
• Hidden depths
• Hidden gem
• Hidden in plain sight
• Hidden treasure
• His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman book)
• Honor thy self (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• How Deep Is Your Love? (Bee Gees song)
• I bet he drinks Carling Black Label (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)
• I wandered lonely as a cloud (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• I'd rather light a candle than curse the dark
• If you want to impress someone, put him on your Black list (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• In a black mood
• In deep
• In deep doo-doo
• In deep shit
• In deep water
• In the black
• In the dark
• Is it cos I is black? (A catchphrase from Ali G)
• It was a dark and stormy night
• It's a mystery to me
• It's black over Bill's mother's
• It's there in black and white
• Keep it dark
• Kept in the dark
• Knee deep in
• Leap in the dark
• Light years apart
• Little black book
• Little black dress
• Little black number
• Magical Mystery Tour (Beatles song)
• Man In The Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan song)
• Men in black
• My Humps (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• Mystery meat
• Not as black as you are painted
• Not everything in black and white makes sense (Guinness advertising slogan)
• Oceans apart
• On cloud nine
• On the black market
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Paternal bonus (a joke or theme added to a childrens programme aimed at adults)
• Pitch black
• Pitch dark
• Rare bird
• River Deep Mountain High (Ike and Tina Turner song)
• Roll deep
• Rolling in the Deep (Adele song)
• Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown song)
• Set yourself apart
• Shot in the dark
• Shrouded in mystery
• Skin deep
• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
• Stab in the dark
• Still waters run deep
• Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
• Take a few deep breaths
• Take apart
• Tall dark and handsome
• That Obscure Object Of Desire (Luis Bunuel movie)
• The Adventure of Black Peter (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Black Diamond (Nickname of Leonidas da Silva)
• The Black Falcon (Nickname of Prince Baccarratti (Bela Kovacs))
• The Black Pearl (Nickname of Eusebio)
• The Black Prince (Nickname of Edward Prince of Wales)
• The Black Spider (Nickname of Lev Yashin)
• The Black Tullip (Nickname of Ruud Gullit)
• The Black Watch (Nickname of The Royal Highland Regiment)
• The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd album)
• The Man in Black (Nickname of singer Johnny Cash)
• The Mystery Lady (Nickname of Shondell Alfred)
• The Time (Dirty Bit) (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• The black art
• The deep blue sea
• The deep end
• The dim distant past
• The man in black
• The new black
• The pot calling the kettle black
• Thrown in at the deep end
• Under a cloud
• Whistling in the dark
• Worlds apart
• You can have any colour as long as it's black
• Young, Gifted and Black (Nina Simone song)
• Your best bet for a fuller flavour (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)
• Your fragrance Your rules (Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan)