n.
loss of sensation in the extremities

feather nest Idiom, Proverb

feather your nest

make a comfortable place, prepare your future place, nest egg Charles became a professor and began to feather his nest at the University of Manitoba.

honesty is the best policy

telling the truth is the best plan, honesty pays off Above the teacher's desk is this sign: Honesty is the best policy.

keep you honest

keep you from lying, cause you to be truthful Your child's questions will keep you honest. You can't lie to kids.

nest egg

money for retirement, life savings After selling the farm, they had their nest egg - about $200,000.

to be perfectly honest

to tell you the truth, to tell you exactly how I feel, as a matter of fact """Your cat's up in the tree again."" ""To be perfectly honest, I don't care. Let him come down alone."""

feather one's nest

1．use for yourself money and power，esp．from a public office 营私；饱私囊
He used his position and in fluence to feather his nest．他利用自己的地位和权势谋取私利。
She may do something for you，but she'll be feathering her own nest at the same time．她会为你做些好事，但同时她会从中捞些好处。
Before liberation，many officials feathered their nests through corruption．解放前，许多官吏通过贪污中饱私囊。
2． make one's home pleasant and comfortable；decorate one's house装饰家庭
Furniture stores welcome young couples who want to feather their nests．家俱店很欢迎想装饰房屋的年轻夫妇光临。

in earnest

serious（ly）认真的／地
Her parents thought the girl was joking when she said she wanted to be a scientist，but she was in earnest．这女孩说她想当一名科学家，她父母认为她是在开玩笑，但她却是认真的。
Surely you are not in earnest in saying that，are you？你说那话不是当真的，是吗？
Did you say it in earnest？你那样讲是当真的吗？

stir up a hornet's nest

Idiom(s): stir up a hornet's nest

Theme: TROUBLE

to create trouble or difficulties. (Informal.)
• What a mess you have made of things. You've really stirred up a hornet's nest.
• Bill stirred up a hornet's nest when he discovered the theft.

honest-to-goodness

Idiom(s): honest-to-goodness AND honest-to- God; honest-to-Pete

Theme: TRUTH

truthful; genuine.
• Is that an honest-to-goodness leather jacket, or is it vinyl?
• It's honest-to-goodness vinyl.

Honest to goodness

Idiom(s): Honest to goodness, AND Honest to God.; Honest to Pete.

Theme: TRUTH

I speak the truth. (Some people may object to the use of God in this phrase.)
• Did he really say that? Honest to goodness?
• Honest to Pete, I’ve been to the moon.
• I've been there, too—honest to God.

feather (one's) (own) nest

1. To accouter and adorn one's residence. Now that the accommodation is clearly mine, I can't delay to calamus my nest!2. To adorn oneself by application one's access or position or with added people's money. I'm abiding he feathered his own backup with the money he allegedly aloft for charity.Learn more: feather, nest

feather one's (own) nest

1. Fig. to adorn and accouter one's home in appearance and comfort. (Alludes to birds lining their nests with accoutrement to accomplish them balmy and comfortable.) With the new ancestors allowance and broadcast kitchen, they assume to accept feathered their backup absolutely comfortably.
2. Fig. to use ability and authority to accommodate for oneself selfishly. (Said abnormally of politicians who use their offices to accomplish money for themselves.) The ambassador seemed to be allowance people, but she was absolutely feathering her own nest. The architecture architect acclimated a lot of accessible money to calamus his nest.Learn more: feather, nest

feather (one's) nest

To abound affluent by demography advantage of one's position or by authoritative use of acreage or funds larboard in one's trust.Learn more: feather, nest

feather one's nest, to

To adorn oneself, to accommodate able-bodied for oneself. Alluding to the convenance of birds authoritative a bendable backup for their eggs and young, this announcement originated in the sixteenth century. It appeared in the 1553 comedy Respublica (1:1) by an alien author, as able-bodied as in several added works of the period. It was a cliché by the eighteenth century.Learn more: feather

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hope against all hope hop, skip, and a jump Hop to it! hooked on hooked honor one's check honest-to-goodness Honest to goodness home in hole up somewhere hole in one Hold your tongue! Hold your horses!