feather merchant

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. A civilian. slang
    — But do you know that you are also a feather merchant-you and 120,000,000 other Americans? "Feather Merchants" is G.I. slang for civilians, and Max Shulman has done a book which points out why with a million irreverent, barbed laughs.
  2. Someone with a cushy job or without combat experience. broadly,slang
    — Everybody who works for a feather merchant knows where all the trouble is — at higher headquarters. At least, that's what the feather merchant says.
  3. Someone who does not do worthwhile work; someone who is more appearance than substance. broadly,slang
    — This gentleman was bred a feather merchant, and plumes himself upon his eloquence; but, on the present occasion, “the down of his feelings” (as Mr. Bran; don elegantly expresses it) was considerably ruffled by the hooting of his auditors.
  4. A short man. slang
    — A standard joke among painters is that, "(this or that) feather-merchant is so short he needs a step-ladder to paint the baseboard."
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see feather, merchant. One who sells feathers.
    — Both ivory and ostrich feathers have lost much of their commercial importance during late years; but there are still feather merchants at Mogador who are in communication with all the districts of the Desert where the bird is found.

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feather merchants plural
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