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high horse

NOUN
  1. an attitude of arrogant superiority
    get off your high horse and admit you are wrong

How To Use high horse In A Sentence

  • The Black Caucus in the House, even Charlie Rangel, who -- you know, who can get up on his high horse literally, pretty easily, even though Mr. Rangel did sort of kind of sidle up to it, there wasn't that -- that outcry that you would normally get from the Black Caucus when they think that a black person is being dealt with unfairly. CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2009
  • Oh well, I'm sure the view is always clearer from a real high horse. robbers The Scarlet Letter (another word game)
  • “I have seen Sir Richard in a devil of a passion, but never with me — no, no! Trust Sir Richard for not riding the high horse with me — a baronet is a baronet, but a bard is a bard; and that Sir Richard knows.” Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
  • His widely mocked garble about him taking his ‘high horse’ on the ‘low road’ is actually, with a bit of untangling, a pretty good image.
  • Enjoy the solitude and the view, but a high house shouldn't be a high horse. Times, Sunday Times
  • They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles, and ended right back where they'd started.
  • Nevertheless, while I am on my high horse, I reckon that the abandonment of Standard Grades at their secondary schools is a rather lamentable idea.
  • Life is always simpler viewed from the saddle of a high horse. How do I deter the bottle brigade? What have you done?
  • A word scorned by a million liberal malcontents cutting off their noses to spite their collective face, considering it untrendy to stand up for a country that enshrined the very values that saddled their every high horse. Be My Enemy
  • On the topic of THIS thread, my high horse is again trotting. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Attorney Suggests That It May Be a Crime for Teachers to Follow the New State Law Mandating Certain Forms of Sex Education
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