on one's high horse

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on one's high horse 的定义

  1. In an arrogant or condescending manner. For example, When they started talking about music, David got on his high horse and said that classical music was only fit for museums and archives. This expression, alluding to the use of tall horses by high-ranking persons, dates from the late 1700s. Similarly, off one's high horse means “less arrogantly, more humbly,” as in I wish she'd get off her high horse and be more friendly. It dates from the early 1900s, but is heard less often today.

on one's high horse 近义词

on one's high horse

等同于 prideful

更多on one's high horse例句

  1. Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
  2. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
  3. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  4. Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
  5. Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
  6. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
  7. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
  8. There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
  9. Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
  10. Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most High hath created him.