high horse
a haughty attitude or temper; a contemptuous manner.
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How to use high horse in a sentence
This would be our first serious conversation and I do not want to come off as being on a high horse.
Three years into parenting, I’ve climbed off my high horse and embraced how damned cute kids gear can be.
Anyway, far be it from me to get on my high horse about sensationalist covers.
Firefox no longer has its moral high-horse, and that leaves its fragile state without anyone to resuscitate it if flatlines.
OkCupid Keeps Up Its Firefox Boycott for CEO’s Anti-Gay Stance | Gregory Ferenstein | April 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut I hardly mounted my high horse and made some kind of argument that this incident disqualified him from the presidency.
And I don't say this from atop some moral or aesthetic or populist high horse.
But with you it's different, and she's on her dignity—riding her high horse.
From Place to Place | Irvin S. CobbAlbert Fitzallen did not ride a very high horse when he learned that his supposed rival was so anxious to assist him.
Orley Farm | Anthony TrollopeShe'd be, I suppose, on her high horse—and—and 'tis not a feather to me.
The House by the Church-Yard | J. Sheridan Le FanuI could not help feeling that I was riding "a high horse;" but the injustice done me seemed to warrant it.
Breaking Away | Oliver OpticJimmy Wilkinson owes me money, and he owes me an apology, and he's got to come down from his high horse, or I'm a liar.
A Dream of Empire | William Henry Venable
Cultural definitions for 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.”
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Other Idioms and Phrases with high horse
see on one's high horse.
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