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Why should this milk-toast, namby-pamby jerk of a person have so much power in this critical legislation, that effects millions of Americans and a huge segment of our economy?

Senate Democrat fuming at Lieberman 2009

This is a remarkably milk-toast response to big news from someone who is supposed to be the future of the party.

Republicans react to Palin news 2009

Thus, the Right smears all levels of economic redistribution, regardless of how milk-toast, as socialism.

Stewart Acuff: Punching Holes in so-called Free Market Economics 2010

Thus, the Right smears all levels of economic redistribution, regardless of how milk-toast, as socialism.

Stewart Acuff: Punching Holes in so-called Free Market Economics 2010

That pleases many of you milk-toast, vegan-clear-broth, Powell-nothing types, but it won't build a movement or provide leaders.

Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

A well-staked out and firmly argued position is preferable to a milk-toast exhibition of fence-sitting.

Primeval Season 3: A Brief Summation « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

But I wanted to just say they've played a milk-toast campaign for one simple reason.

CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2004 2004

Between them stood a plate of milk-toast and the little pewter tea-pot, puffing threads of steam from its puny nozzle as if it really intended an opposition to the great salamander of a kettle that sung and fumed and made a great ado over the hot fire back in the chimney.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

She carried a carefully prepared tray in to her mother at five o'clock, and sat beside her while the invalid slowly finished her milk-toast and tea, and the cookies and jelly Mary Bell was famous for.

Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

We stayed at Divinerries 'six months until one night Peter Boyce Wendell, the columnist, ate his milk-toast there.

Flappers and Philosophers 1918