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Little black book

How has the blue book managed to mean all of these things, I have little idea. Tradition, culture, customs, no doubt. Plus, time and evolution.

Anyways, let’s get back to the little black book. Here, “black” is figurative rather than literal. Black books are bad-deeds books, small notebooks people sometimes keep in which to write about all the bad things others have done against them, or others. Like I said, these books are not black in cover, but are instead black (dark, sinister) in content. In other words, it won’t make enjoyable reading except, perhaps, to the writers themselves, who keep such records so that, perhaps, one day, they can get back at all the people who, they think, have done some terrible things to them.

This sounded serious, doesn’t it? Ease up. Not all black books are blacklists of people with crimes fit for execution with a bullet on the back of the head. One of my teachers, for example, frankly told me that he kept a black book on me and my fellow students back when I was in college. Fortunately, he listed things no more sinister than, say, the occasions where a certain student made a noise at a meeting or in class.

In short, the little black book is a diary, a record of things you perhaps don’t want other people to know about. It’s a book of secrets, including, sometimes, dark secrets.

Alright, here are media examples:

1. WHEREAS President Yoweri Museveni and others have always complained about corruption in the judiciary, the Inspector General of Government (IGG) Faith Mwondha on Thursday went a step further by revealing that she knows the corrupt judges.