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What you do to milk, children, and plot twists by leaving them out too long.
means To damage something's value or pleasure by letting it go bad, handling it too carelessly, or revealing it too soon.
from From Old French espoillier, 'to strip, plunder,' tracing back to Latin spoliare — to strip the armor or hide off a defeated enemy, the root behind 'spoils of war.' The word spent centuries meaning violent plunder before it softened into milk going sour and children going rotten with indulgence — the same idea of stripping something of its proper condition, just with the violence drained out.
- origin
- Latin spolium, meaning stripped armor from a defeated enemy
- movie rule
- knowing the ending rarely ruins the actual enjoyment, studies show
- dual meaning
- can mean both ruin and indulge, context does the work
- milk timeline
- bacteria start the job within hours, not days