drown the miller

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To put too much water in something; overdilute. idiomatic,obsolete,slang
    — […] I tell my Bowl Friends, that our ministers have spoilt the punch. Sometimes they give us too much spirit, as when they display a vigour beyond the law; and sometimes, as we say, they drown the Miller, and make sad insipid stuff of it; again they sting our throats with acid; but it is not once in a century that we have cause to complain of an excess of sugar.

词形变化

drowns the miller present,singular,third-person drowning the miller participle,present drowned the miller participle,past drowned the miller past

词源

Originally drown the miller's thumb, meaning to go over the specified mark.
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