milk-and-water
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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Usually these voluntaries were real milk-and-water affairs," he recalled, "but one day the organist did something really wild, which was thrilling.
From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2012
Paraphrasers suggested that Sir Austen meant, "A League which used raw, un-mellowed, strong-arm methods and thus antagonized its Member States would diadem sight quicker than will the present milk-and-water League."
From Time Magazine Archive
Anyway it seems to me more accurate about motherhood than the old bloodless milk-and-water Virgins of art history.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
What a milk-and-water cub I must have been!
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
We do not need to be told that; but Blanche was not of the milk-and-water kind that would have wasted time in fain�ant compassion when there was suffering which her activity could relieve.
From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Butler, Pierce
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