fine feather
Example Sentences
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Without benefit of egg, he was born 50 years ago this week in a movie called The Wise Little Hen, and Donald Duck is still in fine feather.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would have been a fine feather in our caps to be able to send such a report home to the authorities.
From With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
We go to sea to-morrow, and it shall be our business, gentlemen, to bring her to book; and a fine feather in our caps it will be if we should be successful.”
From A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story by Mays, D.L.
The train came in, and at once the juniors crowded en masse round the carriage in which Acton had secured a corner seat, and stood talking to Grim, who was in fine feather.
From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Swainson, Frederick
She can teach them lots of good things and they can be handed back to you in fine feather when your time is yours to enjoy again.”
From The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
