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
If I did not know him well, I should believe him a craven milk-and-water lad, without a particle of the right spirit within him.
From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace
