milk-and-water
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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
“You milk-and-water baby, do you think——” She did not finish.
From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Pauline Lester
When at middle age love comes for the first time to a man of my temperament, it is no milk-and-water sentiment, Miss Sparrow.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
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