Paint black

Represent someone or something as evil or harmful. This idiom is most often used in a negative context, as in He’s not so black as he’s been painted. [ Late 1500s ]


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  • Paintbrush

    [peynt-bruhsh] /ˈpeɪntˌbrʌʃ/ noun 1. a for applying , as one used in houses or one used in pictures. 2. any plant of the genus Castilleja. /ˈpeɪntˌbrʌʃ/ noun 1. a brush used to apply paint graphics, tool A Microsoft Windows tool for creating bitmap graphics. (1996-08-26)

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    adjective pertaining to a picture delimited and numbered for painting in sections

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