plenty as blackberries

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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!"