milk of human kindness, the
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Compassion, sympathy, as in There's no milk of human kindness in that girl—she's totally selfish. This expression was invented by Shakespeare in Macbeth (1:5), where Lady Macbeth complains that her husband “is too full of the milk of human kindness” to kill his rivals.
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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
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