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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.

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2021

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

Like so many of Philadelphia’s famous sandwich shops, John’s is an operation built for speed, not creature comfort.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2016

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

On one cardinal point of discipline only—the necessity of administering creature comfort to the sinful body—did all sects zealously unite.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various

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