black and blue

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black and blue - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  black and blue \black and blue\, black-and-blue
  \black-and-blue\adj.
     discolored by or as if by bruising; -- of skin. livid bruises
  
     Syn: livid.
          [WordNet 1.5]

  black and blue \black and blue\ n.
     the dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied
     with a mixture of blue. "To pinch the slatterns black and
     blue." --Hudibras.
     [1913 Webster] black-and-white