milk-and-water

English

milk-and-water (uncountable)

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 3174108:
  […] she was still, as heretofore, a namby-pamby milk-and-water affected creature […]
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 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.’

单词	milk-and-water
释义	milk-and-water English Noun milk-and-water (uncountable) (obsolete) A light bluish colour. [16th c.] Something insipid or mawkish. [from 18th c.] Adjective 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 3174108: […] she was still, as heretofore, a namby-pamby milk-and-water affected creature […] 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 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.’
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