"As black as your hat" nghĩa là gì?

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"(As) black as your hat" nghĩa là đen toàn tập, không có pha màu gì hết (từ cũ, ít dùng).

Ví dụ
The insides of the intestines (ruột) were as black as your hat [so] that they would not endure (chịu được) the least straining (sự căng) without breaking into pieces.

Only in death were racial distinctions (phân biệt chủng tộc) no longer observable (đáng chú ý): “Men cut in a thousand pieces and as black as your hat! You could not tell the white from the black by their hair.”

He's as black as my master's great greyhound (chó xăn thỏ),' — continued Peggy, who had gradually talked herself into such a passion (đam mê), that her cheeks, generally like a cabbage- rose (hồng leo), were of the colour of a red cabbage — 'as black as your hat."

You're gonna burn for it, Flannagan! They'll shave (cạo) your head and clamp a wet sponge (miếng bọt biển) on it. And they'll slap you in the chair and give you the works and when the juice fries your backbone (xương sống), the lights'll be dim (mờ) but you won't be pasty white as it is now. It'll be black! As black as your hat!


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