once you go black
English
editEtymology
editClipping of once you go black, you never go back.
Phrase
edit- (informal) Once a person of another race has a sexual relationship with a black person, implying that they will not return to having sexual relationships with members of the former race.
- 2009, Carleen Brice, Children of the Waters: A Novel, page 78:
- Is it true what they say about once you go black . . . .
- 2014, Sam Leonard, Messenger from God: A Story of Fate and Faith, page 183:
- “What did I say about once you go black?” “Lila, if it was just sex I could understand...”
- 2020, Angel Ayers, The Throwaways, page 15:
- He thought of the way she giggled when he told her, “You know what happens once you go black, don't you?”