milk 成语

cry over spilt milk

cry about small accidents, cry instead of doing Children drop things and break them. Don't cry over spilt milk.

milk it

take all it will give, get all you can from it, seize the opportunity I learned the mail-order business and milked the idea for all it was worth. I earned a lot of money.

milk run

airline route that stops at small cities From Vancouver, we took the milk run through Kelowna.

milk of human kindness

Idiom(s): milk of human kindness

Theme: KINDNESS

natural kindness and sympathy shown to others. (From Shakespeare's play Macbeth, I. v.)
• Mary is completely hard and selfish—she has no milk of human kindness in her.
• Roger is too full of the milk of human kindness and people take advantage of him.

cry over spilled milk

Idiom(s): cry over spilled milk

Theme: SORROW

to be unhappy about something that cannot be undone.
• I'm sorry that you broke your bicycle, Tom. But there is nothing that can be done now. Don't cry over spilled milk.
• Ann is always crying over spilled milk.

coffee, tea, or milk

Idiom(s): coffee, tea, or milk

Theme: FOOD

a choice of beverage. (Originally used by airline personnel when offering something to drink to the passengers. Fixed order.)
• She asked me if I wanted coffee, tea, or milk, and I chose just plain water.
• Would you prefer coffee, tea, or milk to go with your meal?

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Don't express regret for something that has happened and cannot be remedied.

Don't cry over spilt milk

When something bad happens and nothing can be done to help it people say, 'Don't cry over spilt milk'.

It's no use crying over spilt milk

This idiom means that getting upset after something has gone wrong is pointless; it can't be changed so it should be accepted.

Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free

This idiom is usually used to refer to men who don't want to get married, when they can get all the benefits of marriage without getting married.

cry over spilt milk|cry|cry over spilled milk|milk

v. phr., informal To cry or complain about something that has already happened; be unhappy about something that cannot be helped. After the baby tore up Sue's picture book, Sue's mother told her there was no use crying over spilled milk. You have lost the game but don't cry over spilt milk.
Compare: MAKE ONE'S BED AND LIE IN IT, WATER OVER THE DAM or WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE.

cry over spilt milk, don't

cry over spilt milk, don't
Also, no use crying over spilt milk. Don't regret what cannot be undone or rectified, as in The papers you wanted went out in last week's trash, so don't cry over spilt milk. This metaphor for the inability to recover milk once it has been spilled is very old indeed, already appearing as a proverb in James Howell's Paroimiografia (1659). It is sometimes shortened to spilt milk.

milk

milk
In addition to the idiom beginning with milk, also see cry over spilt milk, don't.

milk of human kindness, the

milk of human kindness, the
Compassion, sympathy, as in There's no milk of human kindness in that girl—she's totally selfish. This expression was invented by Shakespeare in Macbeth (1:5), where Lady Macbeth complains that her husband “is too full of the milk of human kindness” to kill his rivals.

no use crying over spilt milk

no use crying over spilt milk
see cry over spilt milk, don't.

More Idioms/Phrases

no such thing no telling no thanks to no time at all no time for, have no time like the present, there's no use crying over spilt milk no use, it's nobody home nod