feather in one's cap
An accomplishment; particularly one that is flaunted or boasted of.
He thinks it is quite a feather in his cap that he figured it out for himself.
cap
UK /kæp/ US /kæp/
noun 17verb 9name 5
Definitions
noun
1
A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
That elf-maiden smote with her hand so white, “Sorrow and sickness on thee alight” That elf-maiden smote with her cap so small, “No more shall priest's benison on thee fall!”
2
A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
3
An academic mortarboard.
4
A protective cover or seal.
He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
5
A crown for covering a tooth.
He had golden caps on his teeth.
verb
1
To cover or seal with a cap.
2
To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
3
To lie over or on top of something.
4
To surpass or outdo.
5
To set (or reach) an upper limit on something.
to cap wages
It recalls the business case for Scotland's reopening of the Borders Railway to Tweedbank, that British Rail closed in 1969. The review says the business case for this was at best borderline, but goes on to say that the case greatly underestimated passenger demand and that the railway Scotland built has capped its capacity.
noun
1
Capitalization.
2
A capital letter.
3
A capacitor.
parasitic caps
I had to replace the caps in that thing to get it to work again.
4
Clipping of capture; a recording or screenshot.
Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
If you have a cap of Gabby's bare butt from the "forget me not" episode please post or mail it...
5
A capsule of a drug.
Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.
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