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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.

Kindness begets kindness.

If you are kind to people, they will be kind to you.

kill with kindness

kill with kindness
Overwhelm or harm someone with mistaken or excessive benevolence. For example, Aunt Mary constantly sends Jane chocolates and cake and other goodies, even though she's been told Jane's on a diet—nothing like killing with kindness. This expression originated as kill with kindness as fond apes do their young (presumably crushing them to death in a hug) and was a proverb by the mid-1500s.

kindness

kindness
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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.

kill (one) with kindness

To harm, inconvenience, or bother one by alleviative them with boundless favor or kindness. The byword originated as the announcement "kill with affection as addicted apes do their young," apropos to the angle that such animals sometimes ashamed their baby by adhering them too hard. I love talking to Grandma, but she calls me alert a day to see how I'm doing—right now she's killing me with kindness.Learn more: kill, kindness

kill addition with kindness

If you kill addition with kindness, you amusement them too alert aback this is not what they charge or want. `He is killing me with kindness,' Sallie says. `He's aloof too attentive.'Learn more: kill, kindness, someone

kill addition with (or by) kindness

blemish addition by overindulging them. This announcement dates aback to the mid 16th century; it abundantly appears in the appellation of Thomas Heywood's comedy A Woman Killed with Kindness ( 1607 ).Learn more: kill, kindness, someone

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