Give Someone A Black Eye In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "Give Someone A Black Eye", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

Min Minh

2020-11-16 06:11

Meaning of Give Someone A Black Eye

Synonyms:

throw mud at (someone) , hurl mud at somebody

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.

Uses to harm a person’s (or organization’s) reputation or to shame or humiliate them

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.

To punch or strike in the face of someone to cause a discolored dark bruise of the periorbital region ( the area surrounding the 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.

Other phrases about:

To lower the boom (on someone or something)

To punish someone or something harshly

payback's a bitch

A difficult or unpleasant situation or thing has happened as a result of something else

Sticks and stones may break my bones

A response to an insult, implying that people can be hurt by physical force but not by insults

be for the high jump

Someone is going to receive a harsh punishment for what he or she has done something wrong.

Monstrous regiment of women

A disrespectful way to refer to feminist or rowdy woman

Grammar and Usage of Give Someone A Black Eye

Verb Forms

gave someone a black eye
to give someone a black eye
giving someone a black eye
given someone a black eye

The verb "give" should be conjugated according to its tense.

Origin of Give Someone A Black Eye

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.