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Examples:(old) shoes made of woven grass, padded with feathers—pheasant tail feathers on warriors' helmets (opera)—pull out (esp. hair or feathers)—lit. grab feathers from a flying goose—legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison—a simple inn with only chicken feathers sleep on—neck feathers of a bird (old)—empennage (arrow feathers or tail assembly of plane)—peacock feathers on an official's hat displaying his rank (traditional)—keratin (protein forming nails and feathers etc)—(of a bird) puff up (one's feathers)—light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence one person, a matter of life or death to another—Birds of a feather flock together. —feather cockscomb (Celosia argentea)—goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.—goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it—goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.—lit. not harming a new feather (idiom); not commit the slightest offense against the people (of soldiers)—Miscanthus sinensis (feather grass)—chicken feather, garlic skin (idiom); trivial matter—wave a chicken feather as a token of authority (idiom); to assume unwarranted authority on the basis of some pretext—goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling gift with a weighty thought behind it—light as a goose feather (idiom); trifling—lit. seeing clearly the downy feather of autumn (idiom, from Mencius); fig. sensitive the finest detail—lit. one phoenix feather; fig. a glimpse that reveals the whole—as weighty as Mt Tai, as light as a feather (refers death)—Similar things group together, similar people fit together (idiom); Birds of a feather flock together.—become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven—goose feather snow [idiom.]—lit. phoenix feather and unicorn horn, fig. an extremely rare object [idiom.]— |