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
There on the mountain top he stood, gazing into the far distance, where the Land of Canaan, that fair land flowing with milk and honey, lay stretched out before him.
From The Babe in the Bulrushes by Steedman, Amy
On Sept. 22nd at Hagonsville, on 23rd at Bardstown, through a land flowing with milk and honey, but themselves out of bread and living on parched corn.
From A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. by Maxwell, James Robert
With the beehives near by, it was a realization of the Scriptural phrase, 'A land flowing with milk and honey.'
From Solomon by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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