I have black eyes... huh???

In English speaking countries, people have only a few eye colors:



brown, sometimes called hazel, light brown, dark brown



blue, blue-grey, grey, light blue



green, dark green, light green



So our eyes are not the same colors as asian eyes. This is why many asian people say



"I have black eyes."



Unfortunately, in English we have an idiom "I have a black eye" which means; someone punched you in the eye or you hurt your eye and it is now bruised and became black.









This is why asian people should say:



"I have dark brown eyes."