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in fine feather

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  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

The train came in, and at once the juniors crowded en masse round the carriage in which Acton had secured a corner seat, and stood talking to Grim, who was in fine feather.

From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Swainson, Frederick

Pegasus was in fine feather, which seems a strange thing to say of a horse, but of one whose name suggests wings, perhaps it is appropriate.

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

Devil take it, my gallant captain!" growled Jarvis, "but you look in fine feather.

From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Pearce, Charles Edward

As I said, we had a happy growin' time at the Reunion, Josiah bein' in fine feather to see the relation on his side presentin' such a noble appearance.

From Samantha on the Woman Question by Holley, Marietta

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