black eye

In America, low turnout is the new black eye for a country founded on “no taxation without representation.”

His black eye had ignited rumors he was being brutalized in custody.

Why do we think selfies are such a black eye on the face of humanity?

The result has been a huge black eye for the government, which will now incur significant financial and reputation costs.

But Hermann may represent one black eye too many for Barchi and the public university.

Nor did Ethel know that that caricature had been the cause of the black eye that Harry had brought home last summer.

Mrs. Macauley writes her all about him every week, only she probably didn't mention the black eye.

The noble blackbird, with full black eye, pecks at the decaying apples upon the sward, and takes no heed of a footstep.

But Sidney, on the third day, came back with a black eye, and he would return no more.

He would have passed in comic opera anywhere; but the dart of his black eye was keen, his voice crisp and assured.