land flowing with milk and honey

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1. In the Old Testament, a poetic name for the Promised Land.

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Figuratively, a “land of milk and honey” is any place of great abundance.

Example Sentences

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

And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt . . . unto a land flowing with milk and honey.'

From Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning by Doane, T. W.

These poor, half-starved creatures are helped pecuniarily to emigrate, believing that they are coming to a land flowing with milk and honey.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

These poor half-starved creatures are helped to emigrate, believing that they are coming to a land flowing with milk and honey.

From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Ballou, Maturin Murray