milk-and-water
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]milk-and-water (comparative more milk-and-water, superlative most milk-and-water)
- Insipid, wishy-washy, weak. [from 18th c.]
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- […] she was still, as heretofore, a namby-pamby milk-and-water affected creature […]
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 166:
- He gave other equally milk-and-water examples and everyone grew sleepy, waiting for the last lap: ‘Our policy has been exactly the same each time.’