| 词汇 | beat black and blue |
| 词源 | beat black and blue. Originally the colors in this phrase, re- corded as early as 1300, were blak and bla, the blak for “black,” and the bla, for “a dark color between black and blue,” a livid blackish-blue. These of course are the colors the human body commonly turns when beaten, bruised, or pinched. |
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