The Feather Merchant

It is a book to make our sacrifices rest more lightly still, and you can ass it on to the boys in the services and know it will cheer them up. Hardcover , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Feather Merchants , please sign up.

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Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. May 03, Sara rated it really liked it. Bizarre, but really funny. The trip to the past for me was back to my own younger days reading National Lampoon magazine in the late 70s or early 80s. This book has the style of writing I recall from some of the Lampoon stories, and it could easily fit into the magazine. But this was interestingly written, and I thought worth the effort.

Note not PC for this era, but pretty common for its time. Dec 03, Pamela rated it liked it. A pleasant way to spend an afternoon. Francie Shoemaker rated it liked it Sep 19, Jeff Chase rated it liked it Mar 05, Irving Koppel rated it really liked it Mar 18, Heyjoe rated it liked it Feb 28, Elaine rated it really liked it Jun 30, Brian Haverty rated it really liked it Feb 29, Robert rated it really liked it Sep 02, Scott rated it really liked it Oct 22, What is the meaning of the term "feather merchant. Is it from Shakespeare?

I don't know the etymology of feather merchant, but the meaning is, slang a person who avoids responsibility and effort; loafer; slacker.

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The first time I ever saw "feather merchant" in was in a comic strip in the early forties. Maybe Snuffy Smith, I'm not sure. It was a derisive term, and began to be used for people advocating dumb ideas, and also to refer to corrupt defence contractors.

I've never heard "to feather one's cap". I have heard "to feather one's nest" and in WW's sense "a feather in his cap". The awkward case of 'his or her'. Identify the word pairs with a common ancestor.

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