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Caroline Tran
2021-03-07 08:03
Black as a Skillet simile
Completely black, or so dark that everything cannot be seen
Don't make me go down to the cellar. It's as black as a skillet!
After having fun in the mud, the children were as black as a skillet!
I'm scared of the basement! It's black as a skillet!
Completely black, without any light or other color
Completely dark
Completely black
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This phrase is part of a group of phrases used to describe darkness. A phrase in that group black as night, was used by John Milton in Paradise Lost.
Do you see anything wrong?
It was often said by a photographer when he would like small children to look at the camera and smile before he took a photo.
When the photographer said “watch the birdie”, all of us looked at the camera and smiled.
