tar 'n' feather

Refers to either:
(1) The correct way to pave a road (i.e., to evenly spread/roll asphalt and then neatly angle-smooth the edges)
(2) What "they" will do to you is you do a sorry-a** job of said paving.

D.O.T. foreman: The citizens in this area are really touchy about having their hard-won tax-dollars used for re-surfacing their main street, so I'd better see that my crew does a good job of it if we don't want them to tar 'n' feather us afterwards.

by QuacksO August 9, 2018

Hit the featherball

going to sleep

Oh heaven's. I'm gonna' hit the featherball.

by emoney2012 October 1, 2018

Bears of a Feather

A malaphor describing two people exhibiting ursine characteristics such as going to bed early, excessive sleepiness, or sniffing out food in the early morning.

"sorry i missed the show, I fell asleep at six"
"so did I"
"well aren't we just bears of a feather"

by Rolandofgilead December 22, 2024

The whiter the feather, the blacker the leather...

What I call homo-sapiens who are addicted to abscesses.

Person 1: Are you addicted to abscesses?
Person 2: Yes.
Person 1: The whiter the feather, the blacker the leather...

by LeSouffleDeVersailles January 23, 2025

flying on plucked feathers

Relying on someone else to do something for you after screwing them over.

Azure: Can you ask Sapphire to pour us some coffee?
Cobalt: But you drank her coffee yesterday.
Azure: And I want some today.
Cobalt: You're flying on plucked feathers, mate.

by Blues and Dumbness October 16, 2025

Eating the peacock feathers

This means they are rejecting the chance of royalty,Goodluck,rebirth,protection and wisdom this is describing some throwing away a chance of very good thing this is mostly because of karma

Person 1 bullying a kid
Person 2: bro that guy is eating the peacock feathers!

by FLWZY_2 November 16, 2025

some days chicken some days feathers

Sometimes you up, which is when you'd have a chicken, you know a whole bird, you full and some days feathers, you down, ain't got shit but the part you can't eat, still hungry

Hey how's it going?
You know, some days chicken some days feathers

by Coloredwrong August 23, 2023