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!

Remember this well, the promised land to the Jews

The promised land: 流奶与蜜之地，迦南美地～～

Don't quite get it though. IMO, that land was overhyped!

God promised a war-zone :-)

God-promised land to Jews. But it is realized through a

genocide war. Local people were all killed or enslaved

genocide war. God at that time was still Jews’ family god.

Yeah. That's the strength of a story :-(

turned out the chosen people kept breaching the contracts

with God.

We all dream to live in the land of milk and honey :)

beside the conflicts, anywhere else soil seems more fertile

Aren't we already landed? :-)

How about potentially great, but a little uncertain /risky?

That's a good question!

For a well-told story, people risk their lives. All the time

Yeah. The Lord's been hard to please :-)

I'd be thankful for a boatload of porcini :-)

or was the most fertile at the era of the biblical time

Then they move to an area and multiply...

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：

They are going / coming to a land of milk and honey.

haha, that is a good one!

Of course. Positively. But that's only my opinion :-)

I'm still struggling to adapt to this "land of milk&honey":)

Love your last paragraph! So well-written!

Thank you, my friend. It took me a while:-)