feather <one's> own nest
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If I find one man feathering his own nest by so much as one bent penny, I will destroy himopensubtitles2 opensubtitles2
But if I find one man feathering his own nest by so much as one bent penny,I will destroy himopensubtitles2 opensubtitles2
And if it's feathered, it's a fledgling and has left the nest on its own.OpenSubtitles2018.v3 OpenSubtitles2018.v3
Looking back on those days, I curse myself for not having feathered my own nest.Literature Literature
Winifred could have been working on her own, and she may have concocted a scheme to feather her own nest.Literature Literature
At a time when all pro-European forces are concentrating on overcoming the problems involved in modernising the new, enlarged Europe, I do not intend expending any energy on ‘Project Statute’ if it means that we are reproached for feathering our own nests.Europarl8 Europarl8
One nest, in the Jorupe Reserve (owned and operated by the Fundación Jocotoco) of southwest Ecuador, contained two well-feathered nestlings when discovered by the authors.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix
Unregulated power also indicates that officials are not responsible for the whole system but are taking measures which will hurt the system as a whole. On the surface they may appear to be acting to protect the interests of "the system," but in reality they were damaging the system while in the process of feathering their own nest. The phenomenon of "informal power" has dealt two crippling blows to the system, a decline in government credibility and damage to public morality.ParaCrawl Corpus ParaCrawl Corpus
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