Thread: Work in the black or on the black?
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Old March 06, 2018, 06:08 PM
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If it doesn't have the 'illegal' component, those are the phrases we use to describe working more than the norm. If the Spanish phrase means 'illegally working', we pretty much just say that (in AmE).
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