milk-and-water
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
His ideal, I suppose, was more the Renaissance virt� than our milk-and-water virtue.
From Aliens by McFee, William
Just about as astute as the kinsman, and just about as silly as Peggoty, are the men who prepare and the women who suck the thin pap of our milk-and-water novels and newspapers.
From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail
