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Black Beast Idiom
February 26, 2011 9:51 am
(@grantbarrett)
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Some foreign idioms involving color have been adopted whole into English. A case in point: French bête noire. Literally, it means "black beast," and it's used figuratively now in English to mean anything particularly disliked or avoided. This is part of a complete episode.
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