spoilt for choice
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5.0
- idiom
- UK
:
abrumado por las opciones
- After visiting Paris, I felt spoilt for choice about where to eat.
Examples
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I'm spoilt for choice with all these restaurants!
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The new restaurant menu left us spoilt for choice when it came to appetizers.
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Living in a big city, you are often spoilt for choice when searching for entertainment.
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With dozens of brands available, customers can feel spoilt for choice at the electronics store.
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With so many great restaurants in the area, I'm really spoilt for choice when deciding where to eat.
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At the festival, I was spoilt for choice with so many exciting activities and performances to enjoy.
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Shopping in this mall, you're spoilt for choice because there are dozens of stores selling unique items.
Synonyms
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1.7
A large variety of things to choose from
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7.4
Having more good choices than you can easily choose between
A situation when you have too many very good choices to pick from
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'having many good options' can be partly inferred from 'spoilt' (over-supplied/pampered) plus 'choice' suggesting abundance, so a learner who recognises this non-literal sense may deduce the meaning. However, the pattern 'spoilt for X' is an idiomatic usage and 'spoilt' can be misinterpreted as 'damaged' by learners, making the relation only partially predictable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Spoilt for choice may come from the picture of someone so spoilt—given too many nice things—that they stand before a big pile and cannot pick one choice. That's why it means 'hard to choose' when there are many good options.