high horse
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8.1
- idiom
- Informal
:
actitud de superioridad
- You sit on your high horse looking down on me.
- get off your high horse
- fall off your high horse
Just step down off my high horse and I'm back into the world, man.
- Just step down off my high horse and I'm back into the world, man.
- You cannot just wherever you want, Willy nilly remove the T, put AD or put nothing, and then and then sit on your high horse like you're not ruining this.
- You cannot just wherever you want, Willy nilly remove AT put AD or put nothing and then and then sit on your high horse like you're not ruining this.
- He'd just sit there on his high horse and just be so judgmental of how other people raise their kids, even though his kids were a bit of a hot mess.
- And how dare you get on your high horse and tell anybody else how they should feel about this.
- But that's that's that's my high horse or my stand.
- Get your billionaire ass off that fucking high horse, you goofy faced elf looking dancer.
- Get off our high horses and get rid of this hubris that you know, only we can do we quit, do integrals.
Examples
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Why don't you just get off your high horse, McCormick?
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I think both sides should get off their high horses and work out a legitimate solution.
Blog text (13) -
Oh, get off your high horse.
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I think you should come off your high horse, captain, and start to talk business.
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Come down off your high horse.
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Get off your high horse and start treating other people with some common manners.
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I wouldn't get too comfortable on that high horse, Ben.
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Don't get on your high horse with me!
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Dems need to get off their high horse about Super PACs and get in the game.
Blog text (7) -
He needs to stop preaching and get off his high horse to understand my point of view.
Synonyms
133
4.8
Being too proud and acting as if you are better than others
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8.4
Treating people in a rude, bossy way and not listening to them
Behaving as if you are better than other people
Acting too proud and thinking they are better than others
A way of acting as if one is better than other people
A showy pride that makes someone act superior
Antonyms
How Arrogant
Surface Forms
Morphology
high + horse
The adjective 'high' conveys elevation or superiority, so a learner could infer an elevated social position, but 'horse' itself does not denote an attitude; the phrase relies on a cultural/metaphorical image (being mounted above others) that is not fully predictable from the parts. Because the meaning is partly inferable from 'high' but requires metaphorical mapping and cultural knowledge, it is best classified as semi-transparent.
Etymology
High horse may come from old times when rich or powerful people rode tall horses and looked down on everyone. Being on a real high horse made them look proud, so the phrase now means 'acting like you are better than others'.