milk

cry over spilt (or spilled) milk lament or make a fuss about a misfortune that has happened and that cannot be changed or reversed.

milk and honey prosperity and abundance.

☞ This expression alludes to the prosperity of the Promised Land of Israel in the Bible (Exodus 3:8).

milk and water feeble, insipid, or mawkish.

milk the bull (or ram) engage in an enterprise doomed to failure.

the milk of human kindness care and compassion for others.

☞ This phrase comes from Macbeth. In Lady Macbeth's soliloquy on the subject of her husband's character, she remarks: 'Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way'.

词组	milk
释义	milk cry over spilt (or spilled) milk lament or make a fuss about a misfortune that has happened and that cannot be changed or reversed. milk and honey prosperity and abundance. ☞ This expression alludes to the prosperity of the Promised Land of Israel in the Bible (Exodus 3:8). milk and water feeble, insipid, or mawkish. milk the bull (or ram) engage in an enterprise doomed to failure. the milk of human kindness care and compassion for others. ☞ This phrase comes from Macbeth. In Lady Macbeth's soliloquy on the subject of her husband's character, she remarks: 'Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way'.
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