feather own nest



feather your own nest

to dishonestly use your position at work to get a lot of money for yourself What angers him most of all is the implication that he has been feathering his own nest.
See You could have knocked me down with a feather!
See also: feather, nest, own

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Emanuele-Italian
Yildiz-Turkish
Maximmahk-SEEM (Russian)Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
BÉRenger-French
Satomisah-to-meeJapanese
Thalia-Greek Mythology (Latinized)