on high

1. In a position of authority, as in Those on high have decreed that we work every other weekend . This usage is an ironic transfer from def. 1. Also see powers that be .

2. Up in the sky; also, in heaven. For example, They fixed their eyes on high, looking for the comet , or, in the Bible (Psalms 63:5), “The Lord our God who dwelleth on high.” [c. 1200]

Example Sentences

Even Help-on-high was found cumbersome, and, as we have seen, the Rector of Lydney curtailed it.

From Project Gutenberg

Hold-the-world is directly suggested by the favourite “Safe-on-high;” Talkative, by “Silence.”

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Related Words

• aerial
• atop
• skyward
• upward