Dec 20, 20202 min
Updated: Mar 18, 2021
Imagine seeing the words "white" and/light "light" in all the places where you normally see the words "black" or "dark". What would that be like? Consider the for examples:
"These are light times."
"What has been done in the light must come to dark."
White magic.
"The white ops burst into the room."
"You're pretty for a light-skinned girl."
I'm going shopping on white Friday.
"I like my coffee white."
White-on-white crime
"Once you go white you never go back."
"Those were some of my lightest days."
"...tall, light and handsome."
I put her name in my white book."
He offended the boss in charge, so the boss white-balled him.
Eartha Kitt told off President Johnson, so he whitelisted her in Hollywood.
"White don't crack."
He's a midget, yet he calls me 'short'. Isn't that the pot calling the kettle white?
"He gave him a white eye!"
"After all that alcohol. I just whited-out."
"Yeah, he's kind of the white sheep of the family."
He was a light horse: he came out of nowhere and race.
"The gang sells organs on the light web."
"It was pitch-white outside yesterday!"
"You can find endangered species for sale at the white market."
"It was a light and stormy night..."
"James knew what happened but he kept us in the light."
White Death (aka The Bubonic Plague)
"They looked for the white-box in the crashed 9/11 planes but couldn't find them."
Why are y'all sitting in the light?
"He beat her white and blue."
"Since it's a white-tie event, you have to dress formally."
Light humor
Deep, light secret
The white box from the plane couldn't be found...
"Don't make me white on you!" (Old NYC Slang)
I challenge you to explore the connotations of: "black", "dark", "white" and "light".