land of milk and honey
Example Sentences
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“It’s not a land of milk and honey and dancing horses; it’s a land of business, and market forces.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2020
Having fled the Dominican Republic, Alvarez found America to be not a land of milk and honey but “the land of Milk/ Duds, Chiclets, gumdrops.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2019
To be clear, North Korea isn’t suddenly a land of milk and honey baths, and woe betide anyone who requests a chemical peel at a Pyongyang hotel.
From Time • Jul. 29, 2016
He said he grew tired of seeing movie stars who had traveled there exalting Cuba as “this wonderful land of milk and honey, and laud the health care system.”
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015
Her native clime was a land of milk and honey and had its share of apes and ivory and peacocks.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
