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black and blue

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adj.1.discolored by or as if by bruising; - of skin.
n.1.the dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied with a mixture of blue.
Translations
black and blue adj → pieno/a di lividi, tutto/a pesto/a
to beat sb black and blue → riempire qn di lividi
black and blue adj → pieno/a di lividi, tutto/a pesto/a
to beat sb black and blue → riempire qn di lividi


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I do not know what was in my bed, but I had something hard under me, and am all over black and blue.
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Aouda had escaped unharmed, and Fix alone bore marks of the fray in his black and blue bruise.
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