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light as a feather
Extremely lightweight. This simile can be used to refer either to physical weight, as in This load is light as a feather, or to texture, as in This cake is light as a feather. [Mid-1500s]
Example Sentences
Another standout is “Light as a Feather,” with Gary Bartz and Natureboy Flako.
If the shirt was heavy against Scotland, it was as light as a feather against Ireland.
“I looked up at the blue sky and had one of those outer-body moments. I remember feeling light as a feather. And I just started to cry.”
Once it all fell out, my body was as light as a feather.
“Air” is enjoyably facile and light as a feather, though sometimes touching, never more so than in a late, deftly handled face-off between Sonny and Deloris that brings the larger racial stakes of the landmark deal into crystalline focus.
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