black gold | Idiomator

Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)Rawpetroleum;crude oil.1983,James C. H. Shen, “Rejoining the Government”, in Robert Myers, editor,The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally‎[1],Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd.,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC, page29:With theblack goldalready gushing from his country's wells, the Iranian monarch did not show much interest in what the Republic of China had to offer in agricultural know-how, commerce, and cultural interflow.; Black pepper, in the context of being a historically valuablespice.; Black-coloured gold, variously produced bypatination,deposition,oxidation, etc. and used in jewellery or in high-technology applications.; Coal.2022April 20, Christian Wolmar, “Northumberland Line reopening is not the end of the journey”, inRAIL, number955, page46:They [the railways] are mostly remnants of a long-gone coal industry, laid out largely to bring theblack goldfrom the mines to the waterways.

Examples:

EN: Jug, you've struck oil, black gold!
ES: ¿Cómo vamos a parar esto? ¿Pararlo?
EN: And more important, there's also oil, 213,000,000 barrels a year of it, black gold flowing from the Earth that contains 55% of the world's oil.
ES: Lo más importante, también hay petróleo. 213 millones de barriles al año. Oro negro que nace de la tierra que contiene el 55 por ciento del petróleo del mundo.
EN: Their aim... to conquer the Sudan and stop General Gordon's attempt to stamp out the age-old trade in black gold - slaves.
ES: Su objetivo... Conquistar Sudán y detener los intentos del General Gordon... de erradicar el comercio ancestral de un verdadero oro negro: los esclavos.
EN: The coal miners of Wales have long been famed for their tough, rugged life, hewing the black gold from the uncompromising hell of one mile under.
ES: Los mineros de carbón de Gales son conocidos por la vida tosca y sacrificada de quienes extraen el oro negro de las entrañas infernales de la Tierra.
EN: 'What he produces for himself is the wage, 'whilst the MG, black gold and the Hilton 'dwindle to a precise quantity of essentials, 'whether a bicycle, two gallons of petrol, ten cigarettes
ES: Lo que produce para él es el sueldo. Mientras, el Morris Garages, el oro negro y el Hilton... se reducen a algunas cosas básicas... la bicicleta, diez litros de gasolina... diez cigarrillos o un piso de protección oficial.
EN: A hundred million dollars in black gold underneath that earth.
ES: Cien millones de dólares en oro negro debajo de esa tierra.
EN: Without this black gold, I might as well close up shop.
ES: Sin este oro negro, valdría más que cerrara la oficina.
EN: Cascara had a little black gold?
ES: ¿Qué?
EN: - Cascara had a little black gold - Oil?
ES: - ¿Petróleo?
EN: In 1910, in the southwest corner of Kern County, god spoke in a gusher of black gold.
ES: En 1910, en el suroeste del condado de Kern. El Señor nos habló por medio de un pozo de petróleo.
EN: Oil that is Well, maybe you call it black gold or Texas tea
ES: Petróleo, vaya. A lo mejor tú lo conoces por "oro negro" o "té de Tejas"
EN: Oil, that is, black gold, Texas tea.
ES: Oro negro. Té de Texas. Todas:
EN: "Wheat fields, you are our black gold."
ES: "Campos de trigo, sois nuestro oro negro."
EN: He turns waste into black gold, oil and gasoline.
ES: Convierte la basura en oro negro, aceite y gasooline.
EN: This is rugged country. Land of black gold.
ES: Es un terreno accidentado, tierra de oro negro.

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