Black and blue
Black and white
Put something down in black and white
Black out
Black as night
Either darken by putting out the lights, or to lose consciousness.
Used to describe something that is badly bruised.
Somewhere very dark, when it is hard to see anything.
To judge everything as either one way or the other, good or bad.
To have something written down for confirmation or evidence.
An idiom is a phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a meaning you wouldn't be able to work out from the meanings of the individual words.
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Drag a "meaning" from the right hand column into the central column next to the idiom to which you think it belongs.
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