Idiom
feather one's nest
Meaning
To achieve benefits, especially financial ones, by taking advantage of the opportunities with which one is presented; to amass a comfortable amount of personal wealth; especially, to do so to a degree that involves venality.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He used his position to feather his own nest.”
“The manager was fired after the board discovered he had been feathering his nest with company funds.”
“The corrupt official spent his entire career feathering his nest, indifferent to the public trust he had systematically betrayed for personal gain.”
Examples
simple
“He used his position to feather his own nest.”
contextual
“The manager was fired after the board discovered he had been feathering his nest with company funds.”
complex
“The corrupt official spent his entire career feathering his nest, indifferent to the public trust he had systematically betrayed for personal gain.”
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