black art
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
black art (plural black arts)
- (often in the plural) A practice such as witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, or black magic.
- dabbling in the black arts
- In 1690s Salem, anyone was at mortal risk of being accused of practicing the black arts.
- (figuratively, by extension) A process that is mysterious or difficult to master.
- Operating a hand card punch was something of a black art.
- 2022 November 16, Graham Eccles, “The Rest Day Working saga...”, in RAIL, number 970, page 32:
- Traincrew management has always been a bit of a black art, rather than a science. The present traincrew difficulties that beset the UK rail industry are neither new nor were they unforeseeable.
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witchcraft, sorcery, black magic, etc.
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