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
It was like having emerged from a desert into a land flowing with milk and honey.
From The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains by Isla May Mullins
And although Palestine was eulogized as a land flowing with milk and honey, before the Hebrews took possession of it, yet the science of bee-culture was wholly unknown.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
The father soon became dissatisfied with his prospects, and moved his family to Steubenville, Ohio, where he hoped to find a land flowing with milk and honey.
From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah K. Bolton
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