What is Smooth One's / Sb's Feathers?


1.

to make oneself (or somebody else) feel less irritated or offended

Lacon was no fool, and the Cousin's wrath just when everyone was trying to smooth their feathers was a thing to be avoided at any cost.

John le Carré: The Honourable SchoolboyRONET BOOKS, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000. p. 63.


67

Random Words:

1. A conbining of the term dick and the term nuts. My friend said it once and it is one of the stupidest damn things I've ever heard. ..
1. Founded by CaptainMC, ShatteredMagi, and Anidrin. No one knows their reals names. The name was chosen after the recent absence of mythri..
1. A very Nazi-sounding German last name Ich bin Altvater! See altvater, german, nazi, last name, joke..