to be black as coal
- Fuente de la expresión
- DUE
- Estructura completa
- (Someone) to be black as coal
- Variantes
- to be darker than coal
- Contexto
- Her complexion is more than dark, for it is almost that of a Mulatto; and her hair, which hangs in long locks on either side of her face, is black as coal, and coarse as the tail of a horse, from which it seems to have been gathered.
- Fuente del contexto
- Google Books
- Tipo de fuente
- Libro
- Autor
- George Borrow
- Título de la fuente
- The Zincali, Or, An Account of the Gypsies of Spain
- Año
- 1841
- Web
- https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=n1S8jgEACAAJ&q=black+as+coal#v=snippet&q=black%20as%20coal&f=false
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Estándar
- Marca dialectal
- Sin definir
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente