in high feather

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English

Prepositional phrase

in high feather

  1. In high spirits; cheerful.
    • 1865, Dickens, Doctor Marigold:
      Next Saturday that come, I pitched the cart on the same pitch, and I was in very high feather indeed, keeping ’em laughing the whole of the time, and getting off the goods briskly.
    • 1883, Twain, Life on the Mississippi, ch. 18
      I ascended to the pilot-house in high feather, and very proud to be semi-officially a member of the executive family of so fast and famous a boat.