feather in one's cap

短语
大学

值得骄傲的事物；卓越的成就；荣誉的标志

发音

AU

词形变化

feathers in one's cap 复数 feathers in one's cap

教材释义与例句

值得骄傲的事物；卓越的成就；荣誉的标志

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An accomplishment; particularly one that is flaunted or boasted of.

    习语

    He thinks it is quite a feather in his cap that he figured it out for himself.

  2. 2.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see feather, cap.

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.

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