English Explanatory Dictionary

fly in the buttermilk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A black person in a predominantly white group of people.
  2. Synonym of fly in the ointment (“something that spoils something else”).

Word forms

fly in the buttermilk flies in the buttermilk

Synonyms

fly in the ointment
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