adjective utterly black or, of skin, deeply black US, 1882
(redirected from black as the ace of spades)
(as) black as a skillet
Completely black; totally without light or color. The basement gives me the creeps, it's as black as a skillet down there!
*black as a skillet
and *black as a stack of black cats; *black as a sweep; *black as coal; *black as night; *black as pitch; *black as the ace of spades
completely dark or black. (*Also: as ~.) I don't want to go down to the cellar. It's as black as a skillet down there.Her hair was black as a stack of black cats.After playing in the mud all morning, the children were as black as night.The stranger's clothes were all black as pitch.