Significados de borrow plumes en inglés

He was represented, in a hundred pamphlets, as the daw in borrowed plumes.

SHAKSPEARE'S assumption of borrowed plumes is of course the classic example.

In those borrowed plumes you look undistinguished and underfed.

The royal visit over, our borrowed plumes were returned.

I could not rely much upon my borrowed plumes, should speech be required from me.

She had been detected in her borrowed plumes.

Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.

Upon my word, young gentleman, you look vastly comfortable and vastly well, too, in your borrowed plumes.

And Lawrence on the journey neither spoke to her nor watched her, though Isabel shone in borrowed plumes.

That evening, when we started for the schoolhouse, Sara Ray was among us, decked out in borrowed plumes.

The Jackdaw with Borrowed Plumes

But these are borrowed plumes.

No, you may tell them that borrowed plumes won't always serve, and there are things that can't be done by deputy.

The borrowed plumes, the delegated authority of so many of his equals, raise him to a half-admitted equality with an English nobleman.

" Borrowed Plumes" are represented by a lady's false front.

This Lady Livia, haughtiest and most fastidious of our younger great dames, had become the indulgent critic of the tramp's borrowed plumes!