pale as milk

English

pale as milk (not comparable)

(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?