black sky
n.— «The second is that there is a balance to be struck between the positive and the negative—”blue sky” and “black sky”, in the parlance of strategists—and that there has been too much thunder from each side.» —“Positively negative” Times (London, England) Mar. 8, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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