French Culinary Expression: BE SOUP AU MILK
By allusion to the milk which rises when boiling, overflows and spreads, the expression "to rise like a milk soup" began to be used in the 18th century, then "to rise, to carry away like a milk soup". to talk about someone who gets angry easily.
"Being soup with milk" therefore serves to qualify an irascible person, who ignites over nothing.
Is it under the effect of this milk which softens the soup (“sweet as milk”, said the old metaphor) and connotes the soft universe of the baby?
Still, "it's a real milk soup" or "he's a little milk soup" seems to be used now to say of a person that he tends to let himself be moved, to tear up too easily .
Is this the index of a change in the meaning of the expression, which we would witness live?
