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milk-and-water

[ milk-uhn-waw-ter, -wot-er ]

adjective

  1. ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.


milk-and-water

adjective

  1. milk and water when postpositive weak, feeble, or insipid
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A century later, Theodore Roosevelt, who detested “milk-and-water cosmopolitanism,†saw virtue emerging from struggles between the “Anglo-Saxon†race and what his friend and soulmate Rudyard Kipling called “lesser breeds without the law.â€

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Writing in the Guardian in May she said people did not join Labour to "see their leader sounding like a milk-and-water version of Nigel Farage" or "getting down in the gutter with Nigel Farage".

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Anyway it seems to me more accurate about motherhood than the old bloodless milk-and-water Virgins of art history.

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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.

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If that girl does not know what it is to have a high-spirited young fellow like yourself for a lover, without making him a poor, tame, milk-and-water poodle, why then she ought to make herself always as scarce as she is at this moment.

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