light as a feather
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If the shirt was heavy against Scotland, it was as light as a feather against Ireland.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2024
"They instantly knew something wasn't right, having ballooned three times his normal size to the size of a small melon, however, was light as a feather."
From Fox News ● Jan. 6, 2022
The lighting was dim; I don’t recall seeing anything other than his tuckered cheeks, so thin, and his enshrouded form, which looked light as a feather.
From Slate ● May 4, 2021
How weightless the boy appears in this photo — he looks as light as a feather.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2016
My spirit rises, light as a feather, to the wide sky.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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