of that ilk Idioma
cry over spilt milk
make a silk purse...
milk it
milk run
silkhead
you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
milk of human kindness
Idiom(s): milk of human kindnessTheme: 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.
make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Idiom(s): make a silk purse out of a sow's earTheme: VALUE
to create something of value out of something of no value. (Often in the negative.)
• Don't bother trying to fix up this old bicycle. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
• My mother made a lovely jacket out of an old coat. She succeeded in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
cry over spilled milk
Idiom(s): cry over spilled milkTheme: 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 milkTheme: 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?
of that ilk
1. Scottish ancient Of the aforementioned territory, estate, or area of that name. (Implies the being is a freeholder or from a land-owning ancestors or lineage.) John Johnstone of that ilk, the aftermost actual man of that line, died of burning at an aboriginal age.2. Of that aforementioned or a assertive type, class, or kind. It absolutely surprises me that they would let men of that ilk into a admirable abode like this.Learn more: ilk, of, thatof that ilk
Of the aforementioned affectionate or class. The chat ilk is now rarely acclimated (except in Scotland) added than in this cliché, which is absolutely a agee of the aboriginal meaning. It comes from the Old English ilca, meaning “the same,” and is accurately acclimated alone in apropos to a being whose aftermost name is the aforementioned as that of his estate; for example, Cawdor of that ilk means “Cawdor of Cawdor.”Learn more: ilk, of, that
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come apart at the seams come and gone Come and get it! coffee, tea, or milk coffee and Danish cock-and-bull story cock of the walk coat and tie coast-to-coast clutch at straws clue sb in cloud up of its kind of late of little avail of little consequence of little/no account of little/no avail of mature years of moment of necessity of no account of no avail of no consequence of no effect of note of old of one mind of one's life of one's own accord of own accord of service of service (to someone or something) of service to someone, be of sorts of sound mind of steel of that ilk of the blackest dye of the deepest dye of the essence of the first magnitude of the first order of the first water of the highest magnitude of the highest order of the highest/first order of the moment of the old school of the order of (some amount) of the persuasion of the persuasion that of the same kind of the same stripe of the sort of two minds of two minds, be of unsound mind of word of yore of your choice of your dreams of your own accord
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