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English
Etymology
From John Ozell's 1738 translation of a French play, L'Embarras des richesses (1726) by Léonor Jean Christine Soulas d'Allainval.
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Noun
embarrassment of riches (plural embarrassments of riches)
- (idiomatic) An abundance or overabundance of something; too much of a good thing.
1908, Myrtle Reed, chapter 23, in Flower of the Dusk:Roger was in the library, trying to choose, from an embarrassment of riches, the ten of his father's books which he was to be permitted to take to the city.
2006 January 8, Daniel Ginsberg, “Opera in Berlin: A Staat of Flux”, in Washington Post, page N06:What might be an embarrassment of riches—a city with three independent and artistically distinct opera companies—may become a lose-lose-lose situation.
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