Min Minh
2020-11-16 06:11
Give Someone A Black Eye informal verb phrase
Verbs have/ get also are used to inply the same meaning. My classmate, whom I reported on his cheat in an exam to the teacher, has threatened to have/ get me a black eye.
Newspaper articles gave the mayor a black eye and had a negative effect on his chances for re-election.
Whenever the candidate gets too cocky, voters tend to give him a black eye.
David has/gets a black eye and looks like he’s been in a fight but he swears he just ran into something.
I don't want anyone to know he had/got a black eye, so I have worn sunglasses all day.
To punish someone or something harshly
Someone is going to receive a harsh punishment for what he or she has done something wrong.
The verb "give" should be conjugated according to its tense.
A bruise around the eye has been referred to as a black eye since at least the 1600s. It is not always recognized, however, that this use is idiomatic but someone not familiar with the expression might well assume its meaning to refer to one’s eyeball turning black.
Since someone with a black eye is usually assumed to have been in a fight and to have lost the fight, they can be assumed to be embarrassed or to look foolish, thus, a black eye came to refer figuratively to suffering embarrassment or humiliation sometime in the 1700s.
Do you see anything wrong?
Time is running out.
Time's a-wastin' and you're still enjoying breakfast?
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