creature comfort

Idioms

Something that contributes to physical comfort, such as food, clothing, or housing. For example, Dean always stayed in the best hotels; he valued his creature comforts. This idiom was first recorded in 1659.

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creature comfort

He first ripped out a patch of artificial grass—a creature comfort running down the middle of the facility—and replaced it with rubber flooring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Phase 3, creature comfort projects, will be finished in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2021

In a nod to Disney, the film did show her indulging in the creature comfort of a hot spring bath.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020

Thinking before you speak, that natural pause, turns out, for stutterers, to be a creature comfort they can’t always afford.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2019

We must be guided by the light of our consciences; we must not yield to the seductive in fineness of creature comfort.

From At Love's Cost by Charles Garvice

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