featherbed
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Although the pitch seems like a featherbed now, there is a suggestion of low bounce and turn.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
The lights flickered on and weightlessness returned, cradling me like a featherbed.
From Nature ● Oct. 17, 2017
“The program has also become a kind of featherbed for parents who might have, in the past, considered redshirting their children.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2016
It was that shortage of variety that led Notts to gamble on a result pitch here, when a draw on a featherbed would have better-suited their title challenge.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2010
“I’m sure Jamison would rush out here with a box of chocolates and a featherbed if he knew there was a starveling half-cracked student living under his University. They’d crock her and you know it.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Commuters have been "featherbedded" but other passengers have been hit hard, Doe argues.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2013
A solid pension, good connections, membership of the right clubs, a contented, featherbedded old age.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2012
The couple's action-packed lifestyle comes thanks to their erstwhile employer, telecom company Pacific Bell, which featherbedded them into early retirement.
From Time ● Jun. 11, 2011
He ran the line with scab labor, and managers trimmed featherbedded jobs and produced the road's first profits since World War II.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spanish industries, creaking and featherbedded, stumbled along behind trade barriers that kept most foreign products out entirely and imposed rigid quotas and exorbitant tariffs on the rest.
From Time Magazine Archive
This full-employment plan for kooks and hucksters gives new meaning to featherbedding.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022
We can certainly find lots of instances of journalistic corruption -- fake quotes, fabricated stories, featherbedding etc.
From Fox News ● Sep. 16, 2020
The police have not defined their costs, and without a clear accounting of them, Wittenberg and other race promoters say they could end up becoming a victim of featherbedding.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2011
When every joke about your business mentions featherbedding, you should be worried about outsourcing.
From Economist ● Dec. 16, 2010
No featherbedding, I was told, like our roads unfortunately have.
From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Douglas (Douglas N.) Hay
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