Embarrassment of riches
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Embarrassment of riches
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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), by Léonor Jean Christine Soulas d'Allainval. Example: "All four of them have their own cars but there's no room in the driveway—an embarrassment of riches". The idiom has also inspired other works and been included in their titles. This includes: The Embarrassment of Riches (1906), a pl
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