Black Plague
Speech parts
1. Black Plague - Noun
2. Black Plague - Proper noun
Meaning
the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
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Examples
Temporaryism has been the Black Plague and the Jesus of our age.
COVID-19 threatens the lives of a huge number of human beings, even if it is not as lethal to those it infects as, say, the Black Plague or the Ebola virus.
Needless to say, whatever is going on in Texas, Florida and Arizona, it isn’t an eruption of the Black Plague, even if you extrapolate the current elevated level of “positives” for several months into the future.
Besides, its not the Black Plague.