in fine feather

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English

Prepositional phrase

in fine feather

  1. Doing well; healthy and successful.
    • 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:
      Dowley was in fine feather, and I early got him started, and then adroitly worked him around onto his own history for a text and himself for a hero, and then it was good to sit there and hear him hum.
    • 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:
      The little actress was in fine feather.
    • 2000, Elizabeth Mansfield, Miscalculations, →ISBN:
      Yes, indeed, Miss Jane, you look in fine feather! I couldn't be more pleased.