creature comfort

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

By Some people have a thermal machismo when it comes to enduring a heat wave, but they don't understand that air conditioning is more than a creature comfort.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2012

It is not a question of the standard of living considered as a matter of the subsistence minimum, or even a standard of habitually prevalent creature comfort, particularly not among the wealthy and well-to-do.

From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein