watered-down

A recommendation from the bartender at Paya: Forgo the watered-down resort daiquiri and spend that money on a flight of Florida rums at Swizzle Rum Bar & Drinkery.

European Union environment ministers agreed to a watered-down version of the bloc’s 2040 climate goals on Wednesday, bringing the EU one step closer to setting new—if weaker—targets for lowering carbon emissions.

It is a watered-down version of the earlier plan devised by the European Commission—the EU’s executive arm—which would have required EU countries to slash emissions by 90%, with only 3% of that figure coming from carbon-credit purchases.

Most of them are “watered-down versions” of Musk’s own “broken promises,” in the words of Tech Crunch, one of the few tech news sites to have carefully analyzed the pay package.

It would be like the pope abruptly announcing that the doctrine of transubstantiation is nonsense; it’s just a cracker and a cup of watered-down wine.