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black as a skillet
(redirected from black as coal)

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*black as a skillet and *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: as ~.) I don't want to go down to the cellar. It's as black as a skillet down there. Her hair was black as a stack of black cats. After playing in the mud all morning, the children were as black as night. The stranger's clothes were all black as pitch.
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Black as dark chocolate, black as night, black as coal," he or she wrote.
In about three weeks, six roadrunner chicks, skin as black as coal and bodies naked of feathers, squawked for food.
 
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