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| Colorful English! | ||||
| Word or Phrase: | Part of Speech: | Idiom or General?: | Usage? | Restricted? |
| black gold | noun | idiomatic | reasonably common | No |
| Meaning: | ||||
| a nickname for petroleum; an oily flammable liquid, occurring in many places on the earth, it is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons and is refined to make gasoline and other products | ||||
| Example(s): | ||||
| In The Ballad of Jed Clampett they sing "'bout a man named Jed", who "one day"... "was shootin' at some food," when "up thru the ground came a bubblin' crude. Oil that is! Black gold!" | ||||
| Note: The words to the song on the TV show and movie The Beverly Hillbillies are from lyrics and music by Paul Henning. | ||||