Idiom
milk of human kindness
Meaning
Compassion shown to other people.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She shows the milk of human kindness to everyone she meets.”
“The stranger offered to pay for my groceries, showing the true milk of human kindness.”
“Even in the harshest conditions, he retained the milk of human kindness and helped those who had nothing left.”
Examples
simple
“She shows the milk of human kindness to everyone she meets.”
contextual
“The stranger offered to pay for my groceries, showing the true milk of human kindness.”
complex
“Even in the harshest conditions, he retained the milk of human kindness and helped those who had nothing left.”
Origin
First used by Shakespeare in Macbeth (see quotations).
Key words
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