land flowing with milk and honey
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Figuratively, a “land of milk and honey” is any place of great abundance.
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To some, confidence and supply is a parliamentary land flowing with milk and honey, where all of the angst of full-blown coalition is banished, but, somehow, all the advantages remain.
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2014
But it would not be a land flowing with milk and honey either.
From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2014
"Valencia is a land flowing with milk and honey," said de Nevada.
From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)
"A land flowing with milk and honey" is, in the books of Moses, a standing expression for designating the rich fulness of noble food which the Holy Land offers.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
The tales he told of America were only the clarification of a nebulous vision of the land flowing with milk and honey that hovered golden-rayed before all these hungry eyes.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel
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