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black as Newgate's knocker
vs
black as a dog's guts
black as Newgate's knocker
adj
Completely black in colour.
black as a dog's guts
adj
Utterly black; pitch-black.
How often have the words
black as Newgate's knocker
and
black as a dog's guts
occurred in a corpus of books?
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