flowing with milk and honey

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fertile adj.
proliferous adj.

ADJECTIVE

fertile

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abundant arable fruitful lush productive rich

WEAK

bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childbearing childing fecund feracious flowering generative gravid hebetic loamy luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile with child yielding

Antonyms

STRONGEST

barren impotent sparse unfruitful unproductive

WEAK

fruitless infertile sterile useless

ADJECTIVE

proliferous

Synonyms

WEAK

abundant arable bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childing fecund feracious flowering fruitful generative gravid hebetic loamy lush luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing productive proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank rich spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile with child yielding

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flowing with milk and honey

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

"Once, as the sun was at its zenith, there stood ahead a land of promise flowing with milk and honey," wrote the Times.

From The Guardian ● May 20, 2013

I have named it a "Canaan Cocktail," for, according to the Bible, the land of Canaan is flowing with milk and honey.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Valencia is a land flowing with milk and honey," said de Nevada.

From Glories of Spain by Charles W. (William) Wood

flowing with milk and honey

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