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See: BLACK AND WHITE, IN BLACK AND WHITE.

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[black and white] {n. phr.} 1. Print or writing; words on paper, not spoken; exact written or printed form. * /He insisted on having the agreement down in black and […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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