embarras de richesses
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of embarras de richesses
C18: literally: embarrassment of riches
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It seems to be an embarras de richesses," said Meredith laughing, "and I do not wonder.
From Pine Needles by Susan Warner
In the meantime you are, after all, only suffering from an embarras de richesses; it's far better to have too many suitors than none at all.
From Kate Coventry An Autobiography by G. J. Whyte-Melville
Here was, therefore, an embarras de richesses, which could be got rid of only by a judicious process of elimination, that is, by discarding all like-sounding symbols but one for the same sound.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
If good looks were a qualification for such employment, that civilian must have been troubled with an embarras de richesses.
From Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Sir C. E. (Charles Edward) Callwell
Truly it may be said he has an embarras de richesses!
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Horace Waller
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