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
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
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 Walden, J. H.
The gay world seemed to her ignorance a land flowing with milk and honey.
From Our Bessie by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
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