feather one's nest

• feather one's own nest

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feather one's nest (third-person singular simple present feathers one's nest, present participle feathering one's nest, simple past and past participle feathered one's nest)

1. (idiomatic) To achieve benefits, especially financial ones, by taking advantage of the opportunities with which one is presented; to amass a comfortable amount of personal wealth.
   • 1858, George Eliot, chapter 13, in Scenes of Clerical Life:

     Dempster must have feathered his nest pretty well; he can afford to lose a little business.

• (to achieve benefits, especially financial ones): enrich, line one's pockets, look out for number one

• every man for himself
• featherbed
• nest egg

• “feather one's nest”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.