pale as milk

English

Adjective

pale as milk (not comparable)

1. (simile) Very pale.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     O ſiſters three, come, come, to mee, / With hands as pale as milke, / Lay them in gore, ſince you haue ſhore / With ſheeres, his threede of ſilke.

   • 1990 December, Stephen King, “The Moving Finger”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; republished in Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Signet, published 1994, 1993, page 233:

     Très amusant, cheri.^[sic] You look as pale as milk. Are you coming down with something?

See also

• milk-white

Anagrams

• plasmalike