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"Take my milk for gall"Definition: i.e., turn my milk bitter. Note the reference to the four humours (blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm) and, in particular, to gall, which comes from an excess of yellow bile. An imbalance of yellow bile in the body turns one ruthless and insolent.
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