milk run

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noun Slang.

a routine trip or undertaking, especially one presenting little danger or difficulty: The flight from New York to Chicago was a milk run for the experienced pilot and crew.

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Origin of milk run

First recorded in 1940–45

Words nearby milk run

milk powder, milk pudding, milk punch, milk ring test, milk round, milk run, milkshake, milkshed, milk sickness, milk snake, milksop

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How to use milk run in a sentence

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Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
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But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.
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The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.
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When these last words of his were interpreted to her, she started, made as if she would run after him, but checked herself.
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British Dictionary definitions for milk run

milk run

noun

aeronautics informal a routine and uneventful flight, esp on a dangerous mission

Word Origin for milk run

C20: referring to the regular and safe routine of a milkman's round

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