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
At the climax, Hunt’s version of Dante is an example of milk-and-water in conditions where milk-and-water is sheer poison:—
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
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
