Black and White

Before we go on telling about the title "Black and White" lets see preface first.

Story of a Word

The writer wants to shown us about a word that became an idiom in our daily speaking, tells about the history and source of that words

IDIOM is a word with a meaning that is different from the meaning of the individual words.

Now lets talk about "Black and White".

Black and White

All of us don't know that our habitual expressions will be popular and easily dated.

no one don't know the meaning of "Black and White". we are appear it as opposite means light and purity, or dark and bright.

It's surprising that sometimes the words are used differently. the traditional meaning of it represent in "white hats and black hats". both of them are the symbol of "the good guys" and the "bad guys" in American western movies. White hats and black hats is used to represent of early days the motion of the picture. early the movie was made without sound. so the direction of movie point a white hat as the hero and a black hat as the opponent, the bad guy on the history.

The traditional of black hats and white hats no longer a part in making a movie. but we still hear that expression for good guys and bad guys until now.

A "Black Sheep" is a person who does the things that's not accepted with another. a black sheep is rejected because they brings embarrass to the group. maybe we have a friend thought as a black sheep, a person who is not welcome to the gatherings.

Black is also using to describe good things...

how does it?????

such as "in the black" in business commerce expression it means the a company earning money, they have been get profit from the business. the expression "in the black" comes from the colour of ink that is used in the book of company"s record. the profit are written in black. if they get damage in business it's written in red .

"White" sometimes presenting good things too, a "white-collar" job means that you get the great job. a great job is that you just sit in an office using pen, that means you get a job that use brain instead muscles. it almost using by job seeker.

"White is not only describe a good things, sometimes it's represent not good. "whitewash" is the expression means to hide cover up mistake. basically it's hearing not good in our ear.

In another expression black and white use together, like someone may say to you that he wants to you that your report sounds is good, but he wants to see it in black and white. He wants to see your report writing in "black and white" ink on white paper. he wants you shown it.

Some people are said to see things only in black and white. in this expression, black and white describe opposite extremes. with no middle ground between them. most of issue in the world are not simple as black and white. one side its true or good but the other side it's not all black or evil and wrong. in fact world there are many grey areas of black and white expression mix to represent the true situation.

Now we know that from one idiom have many meaning, and presenting different situations.

Black and White is a unique term and we can use it base on the contacts when and what we talk about in our daily speaking.

By Nika Septa