- smooth one's rumpled feathers
- calm down, make relaxed
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
feather — featherless, adj. featherlessness, n. featherlike, adj. /fedh euhr/, n. 1. one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner,… … Universalium