APAD: Land of Milk and Honey

Meaning:

A place of good things. Can also be used to mean a situation that is extremely

good.

 

Background:

Example: 'Ever since they won the lottery they've been living in the land of

milk and honey.'

 

Source/Early Use:

So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring

them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk

and honey - the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites

and Jebusites.

 

- Exodus 3.8.

 

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The phrase is used more than 20 times in the KJV, according to David Crystal,

and the collocation of "milk and honey" has become a perennial target for

wordplay, e.g., "The US: a land of milk and honey and mass obesity" headlined an

article in 2000 and "Milk 'n' Honey" was the name of a London kosher restaurant.

 

I was awestruck staring from 30000ft above at the verdant Canadian prairie to

the east of Rockies. As we slowly descended for landing, the earth took on the

look of a giant chessboard with each square a thousand-acre farm. Milk and honey

would follow, the country sure had land!

所有跟帖： 

• Remember this well, the promised land to the Jews -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 08:26:41

• God promised a war-zone :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 08:37:44

• turned out the chosen people kept breaching the contracts -移花接木- ♂ (18 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 08:49:15

• Yeah. The Lord's been hard to please :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 09:03:53

• The promised land: 流奶与蜜之地，迦南美地～～ -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 08:30:21

• Don't quite get it though. IMO, that land was overhyped! -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 08:35:42

• beside the conflicts, anywhere else soil seems more fertile -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 08:56:38

• or was the most fertile at the era of the biblical time -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 09:06:04

• Then they move to an area and multiply... -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 09:09:22

• God-promised land to Jews. But it is realized through a -方外居士- ♂ (68 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 08:38:57

• genocide war. God at that time was still Jews’ family god. -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 08:39:23

• Yeah. That's the strength of a story :-( -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 08:43:33

• We all dream to live in the land of milk and honey :) -甜虫虫- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 08:52:33

• Aren't we already landed? :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 08:57:04

• That's a good question! -甜虫虫- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 08:59:14

• I'd be thankful for a boatload of porcini :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 09:05:41

• haha, that is a good one! -甜虫虫- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 09:20:28

• How about potentially great, but a little uncertain /risky? -唐宋韵- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 08:58:03

• For a well-told story, people risk their lives. All the time -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 09:02:28

• 我问上面的问题，心里面是有例子和真问题的。比如说，对于那些“走线”来美国的人，我们是不是可以贴切地说： -唐宋韵- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 09:16:59

• They are going / coming to a land of milk and honey. -唐宋韵- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 09:18:58

• Of course. Positively. But that's only my opinion :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 09:22:11

• I'm still struggling to adapt to this "land of milk&honey":) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 09:25:25

• Love your last paragraph! So well-written! -暖冬cool夏- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 09:34:33

• Thank you, my friend. It took me a while:-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 11:10:38

• Milk and Honey -waterfowl- ♂ (557 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 17:13:30

• Elmo wanted Christmas everyday :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 18:24:30

• Why not a land of milk&bread？：） -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 17:51:06

• Sure, had M&B been in the Bible instead of M&H :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2024 postreply 18:25:53

• Exodus年代，中东是否还没有任何农业化不懂种植，只有畜牧业，不知面包为何物？？ -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/16/2024 postreply 13:48:15

• MYSJ is a Land of Milk and Honey :) -CBA7- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/16/2024 postreply 09:53:27

• It's a nourishing place for every taste :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/16/2024 postreply 13:55:00

• We have different strokes for different folks! -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/16/2024 postreply 14:06:40

• 这个好记。最后一段写得真好。 学习了awestruck ,verdant 两个新词 -天边一片白云- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/16/2024 postreply 11:45:58

• Thanks for reading and liking. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/16/2024 postreply 13:55:58