babbling brook

noun

rhyming slang

There was no babbling brook in the background—just the sound of New York traffic.

Then he saw a little blue flower, shaped just like a bell, hanging on a stem over a small babbling brook of water.

Is the stream going steadily on, or is it rather like a babbling brook, making a pleasant murmur but with little power?

In the distance the little babbling brook sung to her of peace and rest beneath its curling, limpid waters.

Grand free open-air lunch under the spreading sycamores and by the babbling brook.

Skip across this little temporary bridge over this babbling brook and now—climb!

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