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

Name a creature comfort you’ve gotten used to even though you know it makes you kind of a brat.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

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

Next to light, the most important creature comfort is water and plenty of it.

From If You're Going to Live in the Country by Lieberman, Frank