Was heißt »fe­dern« auf Englisch?

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Tom wurde von der Menge geteert und gefedert.

Tom was tarred and feathered by the crowd.

Synonyme

mau­sern:

moult

Englische Beispielsätze

• You could've knocked me down with a feather.

• "Do you have a feather?" "Yes, I have one."

• "I'm not as stubborn as Tom." "Not as stubborn? You're as stubborn as an old mule – far worse than Tom!" "I had no idea you thought that about me, Mary." "Everyone thinks that, John. Everyone!" "Well, you could knock me down with a feather."

• Tom found a seagull feather on the beach.

• Daedalus was an engineer who was imprisoned by King Minos. With his son, Icarus, he made wings of wax and feathers.

• We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

• The birds were not shy, but let the girls take them in their hands, and stroke their gold and silver feathers.

• The two little ducklings had fallen asleep, and the little drake lay between them, covered up by their wings, to be kept warm under their feathers.

• Dummling set to work, and cut down the tree; and when it fell, he found, in a hollow under the roots, a goose with feathers of pure gold.

• I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world.

• She has a huge feather.

• He has a huge feather.

• You have a feather in your hair.

• Tom suffocated Mary with a feather pillow.

• Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,–"With broad flat nails."

• I felt light as a feather.

• Birds of a feather flock together.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

be­stra­fen:

punish