milk and honey route—(U.S. tramps, dated) railroad:
- Have you ever hiked the milk-and-honey route from Ogden through the Mormon country?
milk route—(also: milk round) a route on which milk or other products are regularly delivered to customers:
- The milk companies are saved most of the costs of distribution by delivering the orange juice on their milk route.
Note: The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase Milky Way—galaxy:
- The current position of the solar system in the Milky Way suggests that another period of greater comet bombardment is not far away.