| 单词 | on the high horse |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the high horse b. to mount (also ride) the high horse (colloquial): said of a person affecting airs of superiority, or behaving pretentiously or arrogantly. So on the high horse. Cf. high-horsed adj. at high adj. and n.2 Compounds 4. to come, etc., off one's high horse: to climb down, to become less arrogant. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > pretend to superiority [verb (intransitive)] to make it goodlyc1325 usurpc1400 to take state upon one1597 to come over ——1600 to gentilize it1607 to state it1625 to give oneself airs1701 to put on airs1715 to mount (also ride) the high horse1782 to put on (the) dog1865 to get (also have) notions1866 to put on side1870 to have a roll on1881 to put (or pile) on lugs1889 side1890 to put on the Ritz1921 the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > treat haughtily or disdainfully [verb (transitive)] > become haughty or disdainful to mount (also ride) the high horse1782 the mind > emotion > humility > be humble [verb (intransitive)] > become humble to come downa1382 meeka1400 meekena1500 let fall one's crest1531 to come (also get) off one's perch1568 to come down a peg1589 lower1837 to come off the roof1883 to climb down1887 deflate1912 to come, etc., off one's high horse1920 1782 T. Pasley Jrnl. 29 June in Private Sea Jrnls. (1931) 252 Whether Sir George will mount his high Horse or be over-civil to Admiral Pigot seems even to be a doubt with himself. 1805 F. Ames Wks. I. 339 I expect reverses and disasters, and that Great Britain, now on the high horse, will dismount again. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. vii. 252 Riding the high horse with all the arrogance of greatness. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. i. 372 Do not ride a higher horse than a thousand jockeys of quality whom I could name. 1831 Ld. Granville Let. 4 Feb. in H. L. Bulwer Life Palmerston (1870) II. viii. 38 (note) At one o'clock he [sc. Sebastiani] was warm, warlike, and mounted on his highest horse. 1834 H. W. Longfellow Outre-Mer ii. 176 My radical had got upon his high horse again. 1843 W. M. Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 469/2 It would be his turn to sneer and bully, and ride the high horse. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ii. 55 She appeared to be on her high horse to-night. 1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry v Aunt..really is very formidable when she gets on her high horse. 1869 J. R. Lowell Wks. (1890) III. 213 To be sure Châteaubriand was apt to mount the high horse. 1887 G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 116 They were awfully civil, and let Mrs. Master John ride the high horse over them. 1920 A. Christie Mysterious Affair at Styles x. 224 I decided that I would descend from my high horse, and once more seek out Poirot at Leastways Cottage. 1928 W. S. Maugham Ashenden ix. 153 Come, come, my dear fellow, do not try to ride the high horse. You do not wish to show me your passport and I will not insist. 1928 Sunday Express 15 Jan. 6/4 The cable companies have come off the high horse at last in entering into negotiations with the wireless group. 1936 A. Christie Murder in Mesopotamia xix. 162 I'd like to see Sheila honest enough to come off her high horse and admit that she hated Mrs. Leidner for good old thorough~going personal reasons. 1950 W. Saroyan Assyrian 219 Only his mother felt that Mayo was not a rude boy, but his father frequently asked Mayo to get down off his high horse and act like everbody else. 1959 Economist 20 June 1079/1 Politicians..riding on high horses. < as lemmas |
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