Meaning of feather in one's cap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An accomplishment; particularly one that is flaunted or boasted of.
   idiomatic
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see feather, cap.

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Examples

“He thinks it is quite a feather in his cap that he figured it out for himself.”

“And contrary to his own Expectation, as well as that of every Body else, when he came to Court, the seven and twentieth of July, the Staff was taken from him, rather with mortifying, than agreeable Circumstances ; When a considerable Pension, or at least a Feather in his Cap, was the least that was expected for him.”

“Everyone was elated with this turn of events, most of all Colonel Cathcart, who was convinced he had won a feather in his cap.”

“However, one of the biggest feathers in Perez's cap is thanks to the 2003 crossover JLA/Avengers, a project nearly two decades in the making that was derailed by bureaucracy and bullheaded decision-making years prior.”

“On a value-for-money basis, Scotland currently has more feathers in its cap.”

“He wore a feather in his cap, and wagg'd it too often.”

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