"the new black" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The phrase originates with clothing fashion, where at one point black was a fashionable color in clothes, and the next color to become fashionable was referred to as \"the new black\".",
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      },
      "expansion": "the new black",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Out, volume 4, numbers 1-5, page 14",
          "text": "These reporters are so caught up in the ‘red is the new black’ mentality,\" he says, \"they're more interested in selling clothes than taking a stand on anything.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Nina Raine, Rabbit, page 49",
          "roman": "RICHARD. Neurology. It's the new black.",
          "text": "EMILY: ... I'm interested in the brain, and stuff... neurology... it's very trendy right now.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Graham Huggan, Ian Law, Racism Postcolonialism Europe, page 77",
          "text": "The writer and political activist A. Sivanandan has argued that ‘poverty is the new black’ (2001).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that is trendy, popular; the latest fashion."
      ],
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          "popular",
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        ],
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          "fashion",
          "fashion"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "the new rock and roll"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "the new black"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "The phrase originates with clothing fashion, where at one point black was a fashionable color in clothes, and the next color to become fashionable was referred to as \"the new black\".",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "the new black",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "the new rock and roll"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Out, volume 4, numbers 1-5, page 14",
          "text": "These reporters are so caught up in the ‘red is the new black’ mentality,\" he says, \"they're more interested in selling clothes than taking a stand on anything.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Nina Raine, Rabbit, page 49",
          "roman": "RICHARD. Neurology. It's the new black.",
          "text": "EMILY: ... I'm interested in the brain, and stuff... neurology... it's very trendy right now.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Graham Huggan, Ian Law, Racism Postcolonialism Europe, page 77",
          "text": "The writer and political activist A. Sivanandan has argued that ‘poverty is the new black’ (2001).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that is trendy, popular; the latest fashion."
      ],
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          "popular",
          "popular"
        ],
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        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "the new black"
}