Note 239 — PERSIAN STORIES.
Edward Rehatsek translation
“Put a feather in his bonnet” is not quite the Eastern expression, though its meaning is thus fairly enough rendered in English: the carpenter may be said, in Biblical phrase, to have “exalted his horn”—as the poet Burns has it in his verses on his first visit to Lord Dare, “up higher yet my bannet!” We used also to say of a man who evidently thought highly of himself that he “cocked his beaver.”