Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Black as a Crow

(or as a raven ); “as a raven's wing;” as ink; as hell, i.e. hades (2 syl.), meaning death or the grave; as your hat, etc. (See Similes.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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