in high feather

prepositional phrase

In high spirits; cheerful.

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. In high spirits; cheerful.

    He was in very high feather.

    1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
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    Next Saturday that come, I pitched the cart on the same pitch, and I was in very high feather indeed, keeping ’em laughing the whole of the time, and getting off the goods briskly.

    1865, Charles Dickens, Doctor Marigold

    I ascended to the pilot-house in high feather, and very proud to be semi-officially a member of the executive family of so fast and famous a boat.

    1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, ch. 18
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