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Phrase(s): the milk of human kindness
Fig. natural kindness and sympathy shown to others. (From Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, I. v.) • Mary is completely hard and selfish—she doesn’t have the milk of human kindness in her. • Roger is too full of the milk of human kindness and people take advantage of him.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs