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A splash of
colour
A touch of the tarbrush
Absolute
pitch
( the ability to determine a musical note by ear )
African American
After
dark
( Tia Maria advertising slogan )
All cats are
grey
in the
dark
Alligator bait ( a reference to the alleged practice of using black babies to lure alligators into traps )
Angry
white male
Angry
young man
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As black as Newgate's knocker
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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
Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? ( line from nursery rhyme )
Back In Black ( AC/DC album )
Back To Black ( Amy Winehouse song )
Battleship
grey
Beat someone black and blue
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
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Black out
Black power
Black sheep of the family
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Black spot
Black tie
Black velvet
Black water rafting
Blackberry jam
Boom Boom Pow ( The Black Eyed Peas song )
Born 1820 - Still going strong ( Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan )
Call of Duty ( video game title )
Carbon
copy
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Carbon
footprint
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Carbon
trading
Chocolate drop
Chocolate is better in
colour
( M&M's advertising slogan )
Color
My World ( James Pankow song )
Colour
coded
Colour
coordinated
Colour
me gone
Colour
me happy
Colour
my world
Colour
one's view
Colour
up
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Come home to a real fire (
Coal
Board advertising slogan )
Cowboy coffee
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
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Dark
humour
Dark
monday
Dark
tourism
Dark
triad ( A group of three negative personality traits )
Deep
dark
secret
Did you get dressed in the dark?
Dim
view
Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose ( line from nursery rhyme )
Early black
Ebony
and ivory
Every
dark
cloud has a silver lining
Feel the Velvet ( Black Velvet Whiskey advertising slogan )
Fever
pitch
Fifty Shades of
Grey
( E L James book )
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie ( line from nursery rhyme )
Fuzzy wuzzy
Gallows humour
Gentlemen of
colour
Grey
area
Grey
goo
Grey
is new black
Grey
matter
Grey
power
Hey Mabel, Black Label ( Black Label advertising slogan )
His
Dark
Materials ( Philip Pullman book )
Honor thy self ( Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan )
Horse of a different
colour
I bet he drinks Carling Black Label ( Carling Black Label advertising slogan )
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 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 black over Bill's mother's
It's there in black and white
Keep it
dark
Kept in the
dark
Leap in the
dark
Lend
colour
to
Let's see the
colour
of your money
Little black book
Little black dress
Little black number
Make a
pitch
Make a
pitch
for
Man In The Long Black Coat ( Bob Dylan song )
Men in black
Men in
grey
suits
More jobs through science ( Union Carbide and
Carbon
advertising slogan )
My Humps ( The Black Eyed Peas song )
N*ggers with attitude
Not as black as you are painted
Not everything in black and white makes sense ( Guinness advertising slogan )
Off
colour
On the black market
One two many and you might turn Bertie ( Bassett's
Liquorice
Allsorts advertising slogan )
Only 1 out of 25 men is
color
blind. The other 24 just dress that way ( Mohara Suits advertising slogan )
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 )
People of
colour
Pitch
a shutout ( A baseball expression meaning not allowing an opponent any wins )
Pitch
black
Pitch
dark
Pitch
doctor
Pitch
into
Pitch
up at
Play the race card
Queer the
pitch
Quoth the
raven
Riot of
colour
Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud ( James Brown song )
Shot in the
dark
Silver fox ( a handsome grey-haired man )
Silver threads amongst the gold ( blonde hair that is turning
grey
)
Soul brother
Soul sister
Soul train
Stab in the
dark
Take a bath in the
dark
tonight and let the water make love to your skin ( Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan )
Tall
dark
and handsome
That
Obscure
Object Of Desire ( Luis Bunuel movie )
The Adventure of Black Peter ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The All
Blacks
( Nickname of the New Zealand Rugby Union team )
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
Color
Of Money ( Paul Newman / Tom Cruise movie )
The
Color
Purple ( Whoopie Goldberg movie )
The
Colour
Of My Love ( Celine Dion album )
The
Dark
Side of the Moon ( Pink Floyd album )
The
Grey
Eagle ( Nickname of Tris Speaker )
The Man in Black ( Nickname of singer Johnny Cash )
The Nine Days Queen ( Nickname of Lady Jane
Grey
)
The Picture Of Dorian
Gray
( Oscar Wilde book )
The Time ( Dirty Bit ) ( The Black Eyed Peas song )
The black art
The blackboard jungle
The
dim
distant past
The man in black
The new black
The pot calling the kettle black
Today something we do will touch your life ( Union Carbide and
Carbon
advertising slogan )
Two
blacks
don't make a white
What
colour
is the sky in your world?
Whistling in the
dark
Widow's weeds
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 )