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milk and honey Definition
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milk and honey
noun
1. Comfort; luxury; plenty.
Etymology
: Anglo-Saxon
meolce and hunie
; referring to the phrase in the Bible (Exodus 3.8) which describes the
‘land flowing with milk and honey'
, ie the
promised land
.
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