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in fine feather

in fine feather prepositional phrase: doing well; healthy and successful.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Doing well; healthy and successful.
    • 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.1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    • The little actress was in fine feather.1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

Questions about in fine feather

What does in fine feather mean?
In fine feather means doing well; healthy and successful.
What part of speech is in fine feather?
In fine feather is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in fine feather in the dictionary

  1. in fee
  2. in fief
  3. in fighting trim
  4. in finality
  5. in fine
  6. in fine feather
  7. in fine fettle
  8. in fits and starts
  9. in flagrant delict
  10. in flagrante
  11. in flagrante delicto

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