Newgate knocker
(UK, slang, obsolete) A lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) A lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear.
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A vivid British simile meaning completely, utterly black — as dark as the famous iron knocker on the gate of Newgate Prison, London's most notorious jail. The phrase dates back centuries and trades on Newgate's grim reputation: everything associated with it was dark, forbidding, and heavy. Used to describe anything from overcast skies to scorched toast to a blackened cooking pot, it has the dour wit characteristic of working-class London speech, and still pops up in older British writing and regional dialogue.
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(UK, simile) Completely black in colour.
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