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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.

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creature comfort

He first ripped out a patch of artificial grass—a creature comfort running down the middle of the facility—and replaced it with rubber flooring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

Dona sat up in bed, and arrested her tears sufficiently to accept the creature comfort offered her.

From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Balliol Salmon

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