I used to see "Blacker" fairly frequently when film cameras were still the mainstay of photography. Obtaining a "true black" was difficult with color negative film. So when a manufacturer would …

2015年7月16日 · Our toner is blacker than the ones from other companies. Eco-terrorists fight for greener world. After using this toothpaste your teeth will be whiter. He is undoubtedly a …

2019年1月23日 · In Old English, at least according to the online Old English Translator, there were two words, the adjective blæc, which meant black and the adjective blac, which meant …

Over at German.SE we have a question involving "the darkest of nights". I would like to know what this expression actually means, but I didn't find it in an online dictionary (e.g. leo.org, dict.cc,

2010年8月21日 · If you want to be perfectly and unimpeachably correct, you will pronounce the word forte, meaning something that is one’s strong point, identically to the word fort, and …

I have just read the newest post of DOGHOUSEDIARIES, and I am wondering whether the words for characters are fixed in the USA or the UK, as I am not a native English speaker. For …

So, 'denigrating someone or something' is 'painting it or them black'… that is, blacker than they are, which I could not find in a dictionary as an idiom, but I found the following related idiom in …

2019年2月14日 · When I was growing up in the '60s, in Australia, there were three common formats of vinyl record available. My comments below are based on my own experience and …

Here is the entry for all get-out in Harold Wentworth, American Dialect Dictionary (1944):. all get-out. 1. To an extreme degree; —used with like or as.

2011年2月4日 · Owen Blacker Owen Blacker. 317 3 3 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. 1.