babbling brook
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of babbling brook
rhyming slang
Example Sentences
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“It takes me to a different place. I envision birds and a babbling brook, and Cupid zipping from cloud to cloud,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Maybe that's why he opened their 1990 interview with a babbling brook of bilge about how dishonest the press is.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2023
“It’s the rhythm of a babbling brook, it’s the rhythm of a season, it’s the rhythm of a doe bouncing down the glen,” McLean said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2022
I learned quickly that this was not going to come together in the half hour that old Bob Ross took to create one of his babbling brook masterpieces.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2020
From no babbling brook," Demos exclaimed, "but from that deep spring which has been handed down to us from ages past.
From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton
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