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
Palestine was noted in olden times as a land flowing with milk and honey.
From A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Robert Urie Jacob
He endured the desert, because imagination revealed a fruitful land flowing with milk and honey.
From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Newell Dwight Hillis
In his own phrase: 'It was not to a mere land flowing with milk and honey Moses led the Israelites, but to a land promised to their forefathers, to be a heritage to their children!'
From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Charles James Lever
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