milk round—
1. (also: milk route) a route on which milk or other products are regularly delivered to customers:
- Uncle George used to do the milk round and I remember his little van with milk churns.
2. (UK coll.) the annual tour of higher education establishments by prospective employers:
- Go to the yearly “milk round” meetings that big companies set up at the bigger universities. Chat to their representatives.
milk run—
1. = milk round 1:
- The milk truck driver agrees to take Joe and Alice home but only if they first accompany him on his milk run.
2. (coll.) a routine trip or flight with no anticipated difficulties:
- It was just a milk run, the flight to drop off two fishermen at Otter Lake, but Don Sheldon was worried.