feather one's nest (English, verb)
expansion: feather one's nest (third-person singular simple present feathers one's nest, present participle feathering one's nest, simple past and past participle feathered one's nest)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: feathers one's nest
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: feathering one's nest
tags: participle
present
form: feathered one's nest
tags: participle
past
form: feathered one's nest
tags: past
form: feather one's own nest
tags: alternative