phrase

• Make money for oneself in an opportunistic or selfish way.

  ‘he may have decided to feather his nest by blackmail’

  More example sentences

  • ‘I don't mind that he may have feathered his nest (after all we live in a capitalist society where feathering nests is the be all and end all).’
  • ‘A whole bunch of so called scientists, lawyers and, most important, politicians, have taken it over in the meantime to feather their own nest.’
  • ‘The people simply don't believe that politics has much changed, and regard the entire lot of politicians as corrupt species out to feather their own nest.’
  • ‘An admirer of Robert Owen, he thought that he could improve the lives of the working poor (and feather his own nest) by creating a community in which his workers owed every element of their existence to him.’
  • ‘But you may think I'm just feathering my own nest anyway, so the choice of who to believe is all yours.’
  • ‘But the way they (the politicians) have feathered their own nest in the last few years is corrupt too.’
  • ‘I also hope that in pointing out a minor aberration, you are not doing this to feather your own nest, young Lance.’
  • ‘They are in this line of work to feather their own nest.’
  • ‘If he had siphoned off taxes to feather his own nest, that would be a moral issue of public interest.’

  Synonyms

  make money