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the honey flowed

This is an exaggeration to emphasize how much honey there was in the forest. Alternate translation: "there was a lot of honey everywhere" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hyperbole)

no one put his hand to his mouth

Here putting one's "hand to his mouth" is a metonym that means to eat. Alternate translation: "no one ate any" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy)