embarras de richesses
/ɒmbaˌrɑː də riːˈʃɛs
/(also embarras de choix /ˈʃwɑː/)
noun
More options or resources than one knows what to do with: he had presented us with an embarras de richesses of history and culture...
- This award - one of the few which your diarist is pleased to endorse - is in recognition of the most spectacularly inaccurate political reporting of the past year, for which there was - as ever - an embarras de richesses.
- He will be far more likely to suffer from an embarras du richesses.
- France suffers from an embarras de richesses when it comes to such villages - so I let a poet do my picking.
Origin
French, 'embarrassment of riches (or choice)'.
- behavior modification
- behaviour
- behavioural
- behavioural economics
- behavioural economist
- behaviouralism
- behaviouralist
- behaviourally
- behavioural science
- behavioural scientist
- behaviourism
- behaviourist
- behaviouristic
- behaviour therapy
- behead
- beheading
- be heading for a fall
- be hearing (or seeing) things
- be hearing things
- beheld
- be hell on
- behemoth
- be here (or have come) to stay
- behest
- behind