The phrase "milk toast" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who is timid and lacking in courage or energy. For example: "John's passive attitude made him seem like nothing more than milk toast whenever he was put in challenging situations."
He savored a final meal of eggs and grits, apple juice and milk, toast and a sweet doughnut stick.
It takes brilliance and creativity to make milk toast out of bloodbaths, and Americans are especially good at doing that.
He details the exact amount of food that he consumed ("Ate 2 pieces milk toast") as well as his symptoms ("strong chill & shaking", and "Bleeding of mucous membranes in the mouth apparently mostly from gums").
The menu from the Mido Cafe, where I first had the famous silk stocking milk tea and condensed milk toast, might have limited appeal: omelettes, "raw egg with boil water", a million iterations of the same soy-drenched instant noodles.
For about three years, when I was around six, we sometimes ate hot milk toast for Sunday-night supper, but made with rich cocoa, and I would start waiting for the next time as soon as I had swallowed the last crumbly buttery brown spoonful of it.
This homage to Hong Kong's classic Chinese-western "tea cafes" is, well, bizarre, from the menu with its winks in the direction of cha chaan teng staples (macaroni soup, peanut butter and condensed milk toast, a rash of Spam) to the service.
Behind the counter, baristas' hands are flying, dumping grounds, steaming milk, toasting bagels, jingling cash.
Thus, the Right smears all levels of economic redistribution, regardless of how milk-toast, as socialism.
Then all hell breaks loose, and Rell (Jordan Peele) and his cousin Clarence (Keegan-Michave Key) have to step out of their milk-toast comfort zone and into gang life.
All age groups would rather have a manager that knows how to listen, give clear feedback and acknowledge appropriately than a dictator or a manager that employs a "milk-toast" approach.
Let butter cook, scraping bottom of pan occasionally to prevent burning, until milk solids toast and turn brown.
