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      [Noun phrase]  | "embarrassment of riches" 


      1: a very large number of things from which to choose

      [Phrase]  | "embarrassment of riches" 


      1: an amount or supply more than sufficient to meet one's needs;


        * e.g., " ... He found himself with an embarrassment of riches after flipping a few houses. "





       [ "Embarrassment of Riches" ]

      1: An embarrassment of riches is an idiom that means an overabundance of something, or too much of a good thing, that originated in 1738 as John Ozell's translation of a French play, L'Embarras des richesses (1726)

        * e.g.,  ... Example: "All four of them have their own cars but there's no room in the driveway—an embarrassment of riches". 

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