Dim Phrases

Phrases

• A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Procol Harum song)
• A bit thick
• After dark (Tia Maria advertising slogan)
• All cats are grey in the dark
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• As black as Newgate's knocker
• As black as coal
• As black as ink
• As black as pitch
• As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat
• As black as the ace of spades
• As black as thunder
• As black as your hat
• As dark as pitch
• As dull as ditchwater
• As thick as a brick
• As thick as thieves
• As thick as two short planks
• Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Back In Black (AC/DC album)
• Back To Black (Amy Winehouse song)
• Beat someone black and blue
• Beyond the pale
• Black Beauty (Anna Sewell book)
• Black Friday
• Black Hawk Down (Ewan McGregor movie)
• Black Jack (Nickname of baseball player Jack McDowell)
• Black Jesus (Nickname of basketball player Amare Stoudemire)
• Black Mamba (Nickname of basketball player Kobe Bryant)
• Black Mike (Nickname of baseball player Mickey Cochrane)
• Black Monday
• Black Moses (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Black Thursday
• Black Tuesday
• Black and blue
• Black and white
• Black and white minstrel
• Black and white unite and fight (Political slogan)
• Black art
• Black bomber
• Black box
• Black cadillacs (Canadian military slang term for combat boots)
• Black comedy
• Black dog
• Black economy
• Black flagged
• Black is beautiful
• Black list
• Black magic
• Black mark
• Black market
• Black on black
• Black out
• Black power
• Black sheep of the family
• Black spot
• Black tie
• Black velvet
• Black water rafting
• Boom Boom Pow (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• Born 1820 - Still going strong (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Cyber Black Friday
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Damn with faint praise
• Damned with faint praise
• Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Dark And Bloody Ground (Nickname of the US state of Kentucky)
• Dark Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Dark before the dawn
• Dark continent
• Dark horse
• Dark humour
• Dark monday
• Dark tourism
• Dark triad (A group of three negative personality traits)
• Deep dark secret
• Did you get dressed in the dark?
• Dim view
• Doom and gloom
• Early black
• Every dark cloud has a silver lining
• Faint at heart

• Faint heart never won fair lady
• Feel the Velvet (Black Velvet Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Get stupid
• Give someone a thick ear
• Gloom and doom
• Grey is new black
• Hey Mabel, Black Label (Black Label advertising slogan)
• His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman book)
• Hit by the stupid stick
• Honor thy self (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• I bet he drinks Carling Black Label (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)
• I'd rather light a candle than curse the dark
• I'm with stupid
• If you want to impress someone, put him on your Black list (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• In a black mood
• In the black
• In the dark
• In the thick of things
• Is it cos I is black? (A catchphrase from Ali G)
• It was a dark and stormy night
• It's black over Bill's mother's
• It's the economy stupid (Political slogan)
• It's there in black and white
• Keep it dark
• Keep it simple stupid
• Kept in the dark
• Leap in the dark
• Little black book
• Little black dress
• Little black number
• Man In The Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan song)
• Men in black
• My Humps (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• Never a dull moment
• Not as black as you are painted
• Not everything in black and white makes sense (Guinness advertising slogan)
• On the black market
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Pale and interesting
• Pale imitation
• Pale into insignificance
• Pale shadow
• Pitch black
• Pitch dark
• Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown song)
• Shot in the dark
• Somethin' Stupid (Frank Sinatra song)
• Stab in the dark
• Strong in the arm and thick in the head
• Stupid is as stupid does
• Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
• Tall dark and handsome
• Terminally stupid
• That Obscure Object Of Desire (Luis Bunuel movie)
• The Adventure of Black Peter (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Black Diamond (Nickname of Leonidas da Silva)
• The Black Falcon (Nickname of Prince Baccarratti (Bela Kovacs))
• The Black Pearl (Nickname of Eusebio)
• The Black Prince (Nickname of Edward Prince of Wales)
• The Black Spider (Nickname of Lev Yashin)
• The Black Tullip (Nickname of Ruud Gullit)
• The Black Watch (Nickname of The Royal Highland Regiment)
• The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd album)
• The Man in Black (Nickname of singer Johnny Cash)
• The Time (Dirty Bit) (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• The black art
• The dim distant past
• The man in black
• The new black
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• The pot calling the kettle black
• The thick end of
• Thick and fast
• Thick ear
• Through a glass darkly
• Through thick and thin
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Very interesting, but stupid (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Whistling in the dark
• You can have any colour as long as it's black
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Young, Gifted and Black (Nina Simone song)
• Your best bet for a fuller flavour (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)