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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.

Example Sentences

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Phase 3, creature comfort projects, will be finished in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2021

In a nod to Disney, the film did show her indulging in the creature comfort of a hot spring bath.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2020

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

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

He was an intimate friend of Thrasea Paetus and Seneca, and was held in the highest estimation for his consistent disregard of creature comfort in the pursuit of virtue.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

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