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black and white if you think facts or situations are black and white, you have a simple and very certain opinion about them, often when other people think they are really more complicated. The issue of nuclear weapons isn't as black and white as it used to be. black and white a very clear choice that causes no confusion. When you're flying a plane, it's black and white — you can't be wrong, you've got to be right. Etymology: based on the clear difference between the colors |
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cried Button-Bright; and so there were--quite a row of the two-sided black and white creatures sitting on the rocks all around. The sea was one empty wilderness of black and white hills. You could wander along the canal till you came to broad green fields, with windmills here and there, in which cattle, black and white, grazed lazily. |
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