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

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

"I make bold to ask," replied the man, "whether you would choose to partake of some creature comfort, before joining in prayer with the family and friends of our deceased sister?"

From Fanshawe by Hawthorne, Nathaniel