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a feather in your cap
Definition
› an achievement to be proud of: It's a real feather in our cap to be representing Britain in this contest.Success and achievementsHigher and lower points of achievementFailures
(Definition of a feather in your cap from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Abstaining and refraining
- Acting and acts
- Avoiding action
- Becoming better
- Cancelling and interrupting
- Competing and contending (non-sporting)
- Coping and not coping
- Delaying and wasting time
- Describing the leading position
- Efficient and effective
- Expressions telling people to hurry up
- Failing and doing badly
- Failures
- Getting involved for one's own benefit or against others' will
- Hesitating
- Higher and lower points of achievement
- Hurrying and doing things quickly
- Making progress and advancing
- Making things better
- Performing a function
- Potential
- Reacting and responding
- Repeating an action
- Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- Successful (things or people)
- Surpassing in quality or number
- Taking part and getting involved
- Trying and making an effort
- Unsuccessful (people and things)
- Waiting
- Ways of achieving things
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SMART Thesaurus: Success and achievements
Synonyms and related words:
- a narrow squeak idiom
- a roaring success idiom
- accomplishment noun
- achievement noun
- ascent noun (TO HIGHER POSITION)
- blinder noun (GOOD PERFORMANCE)
- boom noun (PERIOD OF GROWTH)
- every dog has its day idiom
- feat noun
- fruition noun
- have sth under your belt idiom
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- pass noun (EXAM RESULT)
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- sellout noun (ALL SOLD)
- success noun
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