Sentence examples for a feather in a from inspiring English sources

From the unmoving center of the floor, you could watch a waiter, standing still beside an empty table, drift by, like a feather in a wake.

Variously he describes himself as "a runaway train," "a feather in a hurricane" and "the breeze," and he waxes nostalgic for "that peaceful wandering free I used to know".

It should be a feather in a cap of Ange Postecoglou's Socceroos that a team with players of the calibre of Honda or Kagawa instead of dominating Australia would increasingly look to sit back and counterpunch.

What City cannot dispute is that their manager, Pep Guardiola, made a horrendous tactical error in starting Ilkay Gündogan, who was patently overwhelmed by the occasion and resembled a feather in a wind machine when the Liverpool hurricane of noise, pressing and counterattacking swept through City.

Quite a feather in a Chinese cap, and Vimicro's worn it well.

The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!" He dealt with the evolution of features obviously detrimental to survival, such as peacocks' tails, in 1871.

If anything, it is a feather in Macron's hat, something a little classy about him.

If the game is a hit, that will mean a feather in the caps of Falk and Tellem.

This is a glowing ensemble production and a feather in the cap of Scotland's peripatetic National Theatre.

"I was just glad I managed to bring the best out of him and that was a bit of a feather in my cap.

What's remarkable about Amis, a natural cavalier with a feather in his hat, is how early on he parlayed the flourishes of literariness into a macho stance.