milk toast

milk toast

noun
toast, usually buttered, served in hot milk with sugar or with salt and pepper.

Origin:
1850–55, Americanism

milk toast, milquetoast.

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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milk-toast

[milk-tohst]
adjective
1.
easily dominated; extremely mild; ineffectual; namby-pamby; wishy-washy.
noun

Origin:
1815–25
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