B2 — Upper Intermediate🎨 Colors
Giovedì nero
Black Thursday
Literal Translation
"Black Thursday"
What it means
The day of the Wall Street crash in 1929; used figuratively for any catastrophic economic event.
Example in context
"Il crollo della borsa fu il nostro giovedì nero."
"The stock market crash was our Black Thursday."
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