two blacks don’t make a white
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1721 J. KELLY Scottish Proverbs 321 Two Blacks make no White. An Answer to them who, being blam’d, say others have done as ill or worse.
1822 SCOTT Letter 14 Mar (1934) VII. 96 To try whether I cannot contradict the old proverb of ‘Two blackies [Lockhart Life: blacks] not making a white’.
1882 A. AINGER Charles Lamb vii. As two blacks do not make a white, it was beside the mark to make laborious fun over Southey’s youthful ballads.
1932 G. B. SHAW Adventures of Black Girl 28 Never forget that two blacks do not make a white.
1966 A. E. LINDOP I start Counting viii. ‘What’s the modern murderer got to fear?.. They’ll only go to prison.’.. ‘Two blacks don’t make a white.’
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