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high horse
noun
- a haughty attitude or temper; a contemptuous manner.
high horse
- To be on one's 鈥渉igh horse鈥 is to be disdainful or conceited: 鈥淪ally got tired of Peter's snobbery and finally told him to get off his high horse.鈥
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of high horse1
Idioms and Phrases
see on one's high horse .Example Sentences
In the chapter鈥檚 introduction, she urges coastal skeptics to come down from their high horses and consider what these dishes are actually doing.
鈥淪he needs to get off her high horse and not think that I was thinking about her for the last 15 years.鈥
Why must we sit up on our high horse and act like books are the one thing you can never get rid of?
鈥淚f you don鈥檛 want to get off your high horse to see what we like, then it鈥檚 natural that you will be washed-out,鈥 Ms. Li said.
Daniel Roher just knocked Putin off his high horse, dedicating his Oscar to political prisoners around the world.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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