ride the high horse

Example Sentences

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I can ride the high horse, too—steady, mare!

From Commodore Junk by Fenn, George Manville

But I chose to ride the high horse, and rejected the proffered money, although I had really nothing about me but three huszases,71 which I had saved from the proceeds of the butter.

From Eyes Like the Sea by Jókai, Mór

Moreover, parsons were always suspicious fellows, apt to ferret out all kinds of things that didn’t concern them—apt, moreover, to ride the high horse if permitted to do so.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

Good heavens! was she going to ride the high horse over him in this style?

From How It All Came Round by Meade, L. T.

But in Samoa his superiors are prompt to curb any inclination he may evince to ride the high horse over his flock or interfere with any matter not strictly connected with his charge.

From By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Becke, Louis