not grow on trees en · VERB
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(idiomatic) To be rare, not abundant, not easily acquired.
The reason why they’re so interested in what we have here is fuel-cell experts don’t grow on trees and it’s relatively high-level expertise you need.
2018 February 2, Tyler Orton, “‘Fuel-cell experts don’t grow on trees’: Ottawa pledges $670k to industry group”, in Business Vancouver:But I think you should know Before you let love go That true love just don't grow On trees
1967, Willie Clarke, Johnny Pearsall, “True Love Don’t Grow on Trees”, in Sings Sweet Soul!, performed by Helene Smith, Miami, USA: Deep City Records, LP 1001:‘Cook-housekeeper jobs don’t grow on trees,’ went on the woman, ‘leastways not where you can keep a youngster with you.’
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 32:
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fi rest (Translations) · fr ne pas se trouver sous le sabot d'un cheval (Translations)