Meaning of drown the miller | Babel Free

Definitions

To put too much water in something; overdilute.

idiomatic, obsolete, slang

Examples

“[…] 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.”

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