Meanings
- Synonym of no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee.
There’s a saying among blak mob, ‘It doesn’t matter how much milk you put in tea, it’s still tea'.’ I am a descendant of genocide survivors, a child of the oldest living culture on Earth. Nothing, no amount of milk, can change that.
2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The GuardianSynonyms: no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee
Synonyms & antonyms
proverbSynonym of no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee.
Cite this entry
no matter how much milk you put in tea, it's still tea. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no%20matter%20how%20much%20milk%20you%20put%20in%20tea%2C%20it's%20still%20tea
“no matter how much milk you put in tea, it's still tea.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no%20matter%20how%20much%20milk%20you%20put%20in%20tea%2C%20it's%20still%20tea. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “no matter how much milk you put in tea, it's still tea,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no%20matter%20how%20much%20milk%20you%20put%20in%20tea%2C%20it's%20still%20tea.
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