A very large soft-serve ice cream cone showing different flavours and colours

Surfeits and gluts (Ways to say ‘too much’)

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A very large soft-serve ice cream cone showing different flavours and colours
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by Kate Woodford

‘Nothing succeeds like excess’, said Oscar Wilde, the famous Irish writer, presumably having a bit of fun with the old proverb, ‘Nothing succeeds like success.’ I mention this because today’s post is all about excess – that is, an amount or level of something that is too much.