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in fine feather

Idioms  

  1. Also,. In excellent form, health, or humor. For example, He was in fine feather, joking with all his visitors. These expressions all allude to a bird's healthy plumage, a usage dating from the late 1500s and no longer very common.

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Without benefit of egg, he was born 50 years ago this week in a movie called The Wise Little Hen, and Donald Duck is still in fine feather.

From Time Magazine Archive

And at Mrs Murchison's tea party he was certainly, as John Murchison afterward said, "in fine feather."

From The Imperialist by Duncan, Sara Jeannette

The old fellow was in fine feather and full of jokes.

From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell

Some were in fine feather, others hopeful, and but few discouraged.

From The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) by McKee, Lanier

Gorgeous Goldfinch was there, in fine feather; and little Blackbird, who was then as white as snow.

From The Curious Book of Birds by Smith, E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd)

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