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High horse

noun

An attitude of arrogant superiority.

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"High horse" Quotes from Famous Books

... received the strange gentleman with overpowering condescension, and spoke English in a thin, squeaky voice. In a flatteringly short time she had descended from her high horse, and accepted Shafto as a friend, revealed her age (eight years) and told him all about her French doll and her ...

— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker

... in his orders, and ran his squad into the fountain in the middle of the drill-ground, and some of them marched over the parapet, sliding down into the ice-covered basin below. The spectators roared, and so did the marchers, and the red-faced man young had to join in, and to come down off his high horse. ...

— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair

... protested. "No sense in getting on a high horse. Tonight you may find a man who just won't be ...

— The Calm Man • Frank Belknap Long

... all alike, when you climb on some sort of a high horse and become mysterious. I don't know what you are talking about—perhaps you are deluding yourself with an absurdly chivalrous notion about being her guardian—but I tell you this. A normal girl, who is ...

— 'Smiles' - A Rose of the Cumberlands • Eliot H. Robinson

... house? You have only that, when you are either master or servant, and it should be master. I had a wife—may heaven bless her soul—but when it happened sometimes that she played malapert, I used to mount the high horse, and bring out my thunder. I used to say like the Creator: Let there be light, and there was light. So for four years we had not ten times in all one word higher than another. ...

— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley