feather in one's cap
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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An accomplishment; particularly one that is flaunted or boasted of.
— He thinks it is quite a feather in his cap that he figured it out for himself.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see feather, cap.
— He wore a feather in his cap, and wagg'd it too often.
词源
The placing of a feather in a hat has been a symbol of achievement that has arisen in several cultures, apparently independently. The English writer and traveller Richard Hansard recorded it in his Description of Hungary, 1599:
"It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe."
The Native American tradition of adding a feather to the head-dress of any warrior who performed a brave act is well known.
"It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe."
The Native American tradition of adding a feather to the head-dress of any warrior who performed a brave act is well known.
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