Какво означава black eye на английски?

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black eye Значение & определение

0 an area of skin around the eye that has gone dark because it has been hit:
- He had a fight at school and came home with a black eye.
1 something that damages someone's or something's reputation; a bad reputation:
- The problem is something of a black eye for what has been the biotechnology industry's most successful product.
- He described recent incidents of sexual harassment as "a black eye for the university."
- Inaccurate hurricane predictions gave forecasters a black eye.
2 dark colored skin around the eye from being injured or hit:
- fig. The controversy gave him a political black eye.

The trial verdict was a black eye for United States diplomacy.
For her, the loss of a major sports team is just another black eye for the area.
Asked about the impact of doping cases on the sport, he replied, "It is a black eye, but I suspect there are a lot of sports out there with black eyes."
"This is a black eye on the country - a country that I thought was modern and free," he says.
"A lot of us moved here for the school system, and now look at it," she exclaims, "I think the strike gave Middletown a black eye."
He had a black eye and was exhausted, but it looked like we were in the clear.
A drunken man is led in by his wife, who has a black eye.
Those councillors got a black eye for their efforts.