| 词汇 | feather in cap |
| 释义 | Idiom feather in capa feather in (someone's) cap old-fashioned something very good that someone has done.A new television series will be another feather in his cap. a feather in (one's) capAn accomplishment or achievement that one takes pride in. If this clinical trial is successful, it will be a real feather in her cap. I can't wait until I'm named valedictorian— it's such a feather in my cap! feather in (one's) capA big achievement or accomplishment. Earning that full scholarship to Yale is quite a feather in his cap. Getting promoted to management after spending only a month at the new job was a feather in her cap. feather in one's capFig. an honor; a reward for something. Getting a new client was really a feather in my cap. John earned a feather in his cap by getting an A in physics. feather in (one's) cap An act or deed to one's credit; a distinctive achievement. feather in one's cap, aA special honor or achievement. This term comes from the custom of numerous peoples—American Indian tribes, Turks, Himalayan peoples, among others—of placing a feather in a soldier’s cap for every enemy he kills. The term began to be used figuratively by the early seventeenth century and was a cliché by the time Laurence Sterne wrote, “The feather put into his cap of having been abroad” (Tristram Shandy, 1761–67). |
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