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milk of human kindness, the
Idioms and Phrases
Compassion, sympathy, as in There's no milk of human kindness in that girl鈥攕he's totally selfish . This expression was invented by Shakespeare in Macbeth (1:5), where Lady Macbeth complains that her husband 鈥渋s too full of the milk of human kindness鈥 to kill his rivals.Example Sentences
The phial filled with p. 151revenge, malice, spite, hatred, extermination and blood鈥攚ithout the milk of human kindness, the honey of love, water from the crystal fountain, and the tincture of Gethsemane鈥檚 garden being added to take away the nauseousness of it鈥攂eing handed these poor deluding witches and wretches to drink to the last dregs, failed to get rid of social and national grievances.聽
I never saw two people suit each other so well as my aunt and wife,鈥攖he one so hearty, full of life and spirits, and brimming over with the milk of human kindness,鈥攖he other so tranquil, so sensible, and sweet-tempered.
"The Milk of Human Kindness" "The milk of human kindness" seldom produces cream, but there is only one way by which love may be won or kept.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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