单词 | as plentiful as blackberries |
释义 | > as lemmasas plentiful (also common) as blackberries as plentiful (also common) as blackberries: very common. Now rare. ΚΠ 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 243 If reasons were as plentifull as blackberries, I would giue no man a reason vppon compulsion. View more context for this quotation 1872 Westm. Rev. Oct. 265/2 Such poets are as common as blackberries. 1880 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 512 He sees no objection to noble lords becoming as plentiful as blackberries, or as German counts and barons. 1898 J. Arch Story of Life x. 254 The ‘Thank yous’ we got for our pains were not as plentiful as blackberries. 1913 Good Housek. Mag. Oct. 482/1 Sore throats were formerly as common as blackberries and shortlived as mushrooms. < as lemmas |
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