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Updated: June 2, 2025
The boy sees through all sleepy pretenses of understanding. We keep the open door of confidence only as by steady endeavor we keep in real touch with the boy's world. Fathers are ignorant of the problems of family training; they oscillate between the wishy-washy sentimentality that permits anarchy in the home and the harsh, unthinking despotism that breeds hatred and rebellion.
If you are a Coffin, you were sawn out of no wishy-washy elm-board, but right heart-of-oak. I am going, too, as Amyas here can tell, to Ireland away, to cool my hot liver in a bog, like a Jack-hare in March. Come, give us thy neif, and let us part in peace. I was minded to have fought thee this day " "I should have been most happy, sir," said Coffin. "But now I am all love and charity to mankind.
For example, she writes thus one day: "I felt as if I rather wanted a little intellectual bracing, as if something of contact with intellect were necessary to prevent my getting into a weak and wishy-washy kind of thought and language.
'Then you say that Fagerolles will be entrusted with the paintings for the Municipal Council's assembly room? And this remark sufficed; Mahoudeau and Gagniere, set on the track, at once started off again. Ah! a nice wishy-washy smearing it would be if that assembly room were allotted to him; and he was doing plenty of dirty things to get it.
I fear that our lover will henceforth be considered by such a one as being a weak, wishy-washy man, who had hardly any mind of his own to speak of; that he was a man of no account, as the poor people say. "Miss Prettyman, what message ought I to send to her?" he said. "Nay, Major Grantly, how can I tell you that? How can I put words into your mouth?"
Some children need corporal punishment and others who are made rebels by it are melted into conformity by ostracism. It is a wishy-washy ideal of teaching that regards pain as equivalent to cruelty. On the contrary, it may be real cruelty to spare pain, cruelty to the future of the child.
"'Well, when a boy, they say he was considerable sum as a wrastler. "Sourcrout won't larf, because it's agin rules; but he gig goggles like a turkey-cock, and says he, 'It's for ever and ever the same thing with Brother Josh. He is like an over-shot mill, one everlastin' wishy-washy stream.
"I'd give a year of my life for a club steak and all the regular fixings." "That isn't fair! You've gone and spoiled my dinner." "Wishy-washy chicken! How I hate tin cans! Pancakes and maple syrup! What?" "Sliced tomatoes with sugar and vinegar!" "You don't mean that!" "I do! I don't care how plebeian it is.
Well, I accept the names quite cheerfully. Those are the epithets the wishy-washy always hurl at the strong; they put me in the small and truly aristocratic class of men who do. I proudly avow myself no subscriber to the code that was made by the shearers to encourage the sheep to keep on being nice docile animals, trotting meekly up to be shorn or slaughtered as their masters may decide.
And yet these two people were thoroughly in love with each other; and though one was a middle-aged clergyman, and the other a lady at any rate past the wishy-washy bread-and-butter period of life, they were as unable to tell their own minds to each other as any Damon and Phillis, whose united ages would not make up that to which Mr. Arabin had already attained.
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