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

At the climax, Hunt’s version of Dante is an example of milk-and-water in conditions where milk-and-water is sheer poison:—

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

She could climb like a cat, or a goat; and risked her neck about twenty times per diem; she sailed her shoes in her soup, and washed her hands in her milk-and-water.

From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes