the milk in the coconut

noun

A strange fact or circumstance; the crux of an issue.

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Meanings

nounthe milk in the coconut (uncountable)
  1. colloquialuncountableA strange fact or circumstance; the crux of an issue.

    Hoho begob, says I to myself, says I. That explains the milk in the cocoanut and absence of hair on the animal's chest.

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 306
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    ‘Hence, as they say, the milk in the coconut. Rolffe's father […] called his eleven children after East Anglian rivers.’

    1972, Laurence Meynell, Death by Arrangement, page 17
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the milk in the coconut. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/the%20milk%20in%20the%20coconut

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Chicago

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