plenty as blackberries

English

Adjective

plenty as blackberries (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, simile) Very plentiful, very abundant
    • 1821, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab,
      Were this pressed hard upon you, you would probably with Falstaff exclaim, "If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would not give you one upon compulsion!"
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