embarrassment of riches

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Calque of French embarras des richesses, from John Ozell's 1738 translation of a French play, L'Embarras des richesses (1726) by Léonor Jean Christine Soulas d'Allainval.

7 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: runsaudenpula — too much of a good thing
• French: embarras du choix — too much of a good thing
• German: Qual der Wahl — too much of a good thing
• Hebrew: צרות של עשירים — too much of a good thing
• Italian: imbarazzo della scelta — too much of a good thing
• Polish: klęska urodzaju — too much of a good thing
• Polish: embarras de richesse — too much of a good thing