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Little Black Book ( a small book with phone numbers of people one likes romantically ... )

"little black book"

A little black book is an address book where one keeps phone numbers of men or women one is interested in. Example: "Don't tell me you're going to write her down in your little black book."

The stereotype of the person who dates a lot of people is that they have a little black book with lots of phone numbers of people they call when they want a date.

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