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high horse
noun
- a haughty attitude or temper; a contemptuous manner.
high horse
- To be on one's “high horse” is to be disdainful or conceited: “Sally got tired of Peter's snobbery and finally told him to get off his high horse.”
Word History and Origins
Origin of high horse1
Idioms and Phrases
see on one's high horse .Example Sentences
Why must we sit up on our high horse and act like books are the one thing you can never get rid of?
“If you don’t want to get off your high horse to see what we like, then it’s natural that you will be washed-out,” Ms. Li said.
Daniel Roher just knocked Putin off his high horse, dedicating his Oscar to political prisoners around the world.
“Sometimes college students don’t understand the severity of things,” Oats said from his high horse following the game.
He was up on his social-justice high horse for only about a year.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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