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
It was served in a quantity sufficient for the workmen only, as one may readily infer from a description written elsewhere of the milk-and-water "refreshing drink."
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.
It is not easy, of course, in these milk-and-water days to say what one means in sufficiently plain words.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 by Various
