feather one's nest

1. 1.

   enrich oneself by taking advantage of one's position

   “The congressmen feathered his nest through his connection with big business”

   Broaderenrich

Questions about feather one's nest

What does feather one's nest mean?

feather one's nest means "enrich oneself by taking advantage of one's position".

Is feather one's nest a common word?

feather one's nest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.