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
No, my boy! none of your milk-and-water "guests," and such, for the likes of me!
From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various
Why on earth did his friends want to resurrectionize the insipid incidents of this man's milk-and-water existence!
From Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
