Idiom
black day
Meaning
A day of great disaster, misfortune or unhappiness.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Today was a black day for our team.”
“After the company announced the sudden layoffs, everyone agreed it was a black day for the entire office.”
“History remembers the market crash as a black day, marking the start of a long and painful economic depression for the nation.”
Examples
simple
“Today was a black day for our team.”
contextual
“After the company announced the sudden layoffs, everyone agreed it was a black day for the entire office.”
complex
“History remembers the market crash as a black day, marking the start of a long and painful economic depression for the nation.”
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