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  • fine feathers make fine birds — ► fine feathers make fine birds proverb beautiful clothes or an eye catching appearance make a person appear similarly beautiful or impressive. Main Entry: ↑fine …   English terms dictionary

  • fine feathers make fine birds — Beautiful clothes confer beauty or status on the wearer. Cf. early 16th cent. Fr. les belles plumes font les beaux oiseaux. Identified as a Basque saying by 1583 J. SPONDANUS in tr. Odyssey VI. 81 apud meos Vascones..hac parœmia..: speciosae… …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • fine feathers do not make fine birds — {literary} A person who wears fine clothes may not be as good as he looks. A proverb. * /Mary is pretty and she wears pretty clothes, but she is very mean. Fine feathers do not make fine birds./ Compare: HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • fine feathers do not make fine birds — {literary} A person who wears fine clothes may not be as good as he looks. A proverb. * /Mary is pretty and she wears pretty clothes, but she is very mean. Fine feathers do not make fine birds./ Compare: HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • fine\ feathers\ do\ not\ make\ fine\ birds — literary proverb A person who wears fine clothes may not be as good as he looks. Mary is pretty and she wears pretty clothes, but she is very mean. Fine feathers do not make fine birds. Compare: handsome is as handsome does …   Словарь американских идиом

  • fine feathers make fine birds — proverb beautiful clothes or an eye catching appearance make a person appear similarly beautiful or impressive …   Useful english dictionary

  • fine — Ⅰ. fine [1] ► ADJECTIVE 1) of very high quality. 2) satisfactory. 3) in good health and feeling well. 4) (of the weather) bright and clear. 5) (of a thread, filament, or hair) thin. 6) of delicate or intricate w …   English terms dictionary

  • fine — see fine feathers make fine birds fine words butter no parsnips rain before seven, fine before eleven …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • Fine Feathered Friend — Infobox Hollywood cartoon cartoon name = Fine Feathered Friend series = Tom and Jerry caption = director = William Hanna Joseph Barbera story artist = William Hanna Joseph Barbera animator = Kenneth Muse Pete Burness George Gordon Jack Zander… …   Wikipedia

  • Horse Feathers — Infobox Film | name = Horse Feathers caption = Poster by Al Hirschfeld director = Norman Z. McLeod producer = Herman J. Mankiewicz (uncredited) writer = S. J. Perelman Bert Kalmar Harry Ruby Will B. Johnstone starring =Groucho Marx Harpo Marx… …   Wikipedia

  • Without Feathers — infobox Book | name = Without Feathers title orig = translator = image caption = Cover of 1996 Ballantine paperback author = Woody Allen illustrator = cover artist = country = language = English series = genre = publisher = Random House pub date …   Wikipedia

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