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- wash the blackamoor white, wash blackamoors white
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wash a blackamoor white (三人称単数 現在形 washes a blackamoor white, 現在分詞 washing a blackamoor white, 過去形および過去分詞形 washed a blackamoor white)
- (idiomatic, dated, offensive) To labour in vain, especially so as to present something as better than it really is; to whitewash.
- 1778, John van Rymsdyk; Andreas van Rymsdyk, Museum Britannicum […], page 33:
- It is not my Intention to put myself in a Perspiration concerning any of the Hieroglyphic Emblems, or Monstrosities of the Egyptians, for it is all Labour in vain, or washing a Blackamoor white.
- 1786 November 29, “Invisibilis”, “To the Captain”, in Bostonian Scintillations; or, A War of Words […], published 1787, page 30:
- And universally, all Endeavours to vindicate a bad Cause, are but making it the worse. The Moral in my Last Paper was intended to caution you against attempting to wash the Blackamoor white: but you are resolved to struggle.
- 1874, Arthur Lionel Smith, Erasmus: The Lothian Prize Essay, 1874, page 25:
- Folly then announces herself as the bright being whose mere aspect dispels all gloom; her present purpose being a panegyric upon herself, “which, who dares say he has a better claim than I to pronounce? and is not this candour better than a rhetorician’s apish display of his power to wash a blackamoor white? […]”
- 1932 [1930], Johannes Haller, Dora von Beseler, transl., France and Germany: The History of One Thousand Years, page 262:
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