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the milk of human kindness

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the milk of human kindness

  (literary)

being good and kind to other people

Usage notes: This phrase comes from Shakespeare's play 'Macbeth'.

She's one of those amazing people who's just overflowing with the milk of human kindness.

See also: human, kindness, milk, of