black, green, and gold, noun phrase and & adjectival phrase
- Forms:
- Also black, gold and green.
A. noun phrase
1990 D. Van Heerden in Sunday Times 16 Sept. 21Listening to ANC leaders one gets the impression they — and only they — are as innocent as lambs...The only righteous people in Gomorrah wear black, green and gold.
B. adjectival phrase.
[1964 M. Benson Afr. Patriots 116The parade was the biggest ever seen in Johannesburg: 20,000 Africans with a few people of other races followed the two brass bands and the leaders carrying the flags — the A.N.C.’s black green and gold flag waved alongside those of the victorious Allies.]
1992 ‘Hogarth’ in Sunday Times 26 Apr. 24Comrade MP..Pierre C—..left the DP for black, gold and greener pastures this week.
The colours of the African National Congress, used allusively of that organization or of its members.
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