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
I don't think he cares for backgammon or checkers or dominoes or any of those milk-and-water games.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston
The speech was a very milk-and-water production, and scarcely afforded a peg to hang an amendment upon.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles
