feather your nest

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfeather your nestfeather your nestRICHto get money by dishonest methods → featherExamples from the Corpusfeather your nest• But they were all like that, more or less, all interested in feathering their nests at his expense.• Wetherby may have decided to feather his nest by blackmail.• The Bolshoi is full of indolent time-servers, more interested in feathering their nests than in Swan Lake.• So long as they were in favour, they were free to feather their nests, which Andrei did as industriously as anyone else.

单词	feather your nest
释义	feather your nest From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfeather your nestfeather your nestRICHto get money by dishonest methods → featherExamples from the Corpusfeather your nest• But they were all like that, more or less, all interested in feathering their nests at his expense.• Wetherby may have decided to feather his nest by blackmail.• The Bolshoi is full of indolent time-servers, more interested in feathering their nests than in Swan Lake.• So long as they were in favour, they were free to feather their nests, which Andrei did as industriously as anyone else.
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