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 come out with a "new, improved" film they would often say, "Richer, more thoroughly saturated colors with whiter whites, and blacker blacks."

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 nobleman with the bluest possible blood.

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 pale, shining, white, along with the related verb blæcan, which meant to whiten, bleach.

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 reserve the FOR-tay pronunciation only for the musical term.

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 example: A as in

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 the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. not be as black as you are painted not to be as bad as people say you are

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 purchases of records from major bands like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

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.

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