Timeline for What does "was born in black and white" mean?
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| Aug 18, 2020 at 7:21 | comment | added | Nicola Lepetit | Reading the rest of the lyrics of the song from which it derives, "Suddenly I see" by KT Tunstall, it could mean that the girl is so beautiful that she seems born to end up being a model on the pages of a magazine, where many advertisements are in black and white. | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 13:33 | comment | added | Fattie | By the way. It's quite silly that anyone would mark this question down. It's an excellent question: for a non-native speaker or youth reader, for example, you could easily see that this "sounds like it could be" some sort of idiom. (Indeed: it is very close to a couple of specific well-known idiomatic phrases.) The phrase deserves exploration as to whether it is indeed an idiom, a turning of an idiom, or indeed if Fumble's phrase perfectly encapsulates the situation. Thanks for the great question, Max. | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 13:30 | comment | added | Fattie | Fumble has beautifully explained the correct answer: It's poetic imagery, NOT A STANDARD IDIOM. (Just unrelatedly, Fumble, I totally disagree with you as to the likely poetic meaning: surely, it likely means 'born with an artistic, elegant, belle-epoque sensitivity, in to a crash commercial modern world!' Just to repeat, I love your phrase It's poetic imagery, NOT A STANDARD IDIOM which can be used as a standard clarifying answer for many questions here. | |
| May 4, 2012 at 10:19 | history | protected | RegDwigнt | ||
| May 4, 2012 at 7:03 | comment | added | user20841 | It's a song by KT Tunstall "Suddenly I see" | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 6:32 | vote | accept | shadeglare | ||
| Sep 28, 2011 at 14:15 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It's poetic imagery, not a standard idiom, so it could have various shades of meaning. Without more context I'd guesss it means born in to an impoverished environment. Probably financially impoverished, but it could mean an environment lacking in emotional or intellectual stimulation, for example. | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 13:52 | comment | added | Guffa | "The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s" ;) everything2.com/title/The+world+was+black+and+white | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 13:42 | comment | added | Dr. belisarius | In Spanish I heard that referring to someone born before color photography was introduced | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 13:41 | answer | added | The Raven | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 13:33 | comment | added | Matt E. Эллен | What song? It could mean various things - if we know what the song is, then we can better pin down what the phrase means. | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 13:24 | history | edited | JSBձոգչ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
corrected the title
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| Sep 28, 2011 at 13:16 | history | asked | shadeglare | CC BY-SA 3.0 |