in fine feather

English

Prepositional phrase

in fine feather

1. Doing well; healthy and successful.
   • 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:

     Dowley was in fine feather, and I early got him started, and then adroitly worked him around onto his own history for a text and himself for a hero, and then it was good to sit there and hear him hum.

   • 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:

     The little actress was in fine feather.

   • 2000, Elizabeth Mansfield, Miscalculations, →ISBN:

     Yes, indeed, Miss Jane, you look in fine feather! I couldn't be more pleased.