ride the high horse

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Highty-tighty! so we're going to ride the high horse, eh?

From Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls by Clarke, Margaret Bruce

The high horse, truly; indeed, you shall ride the high horse!

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William

He was also the inventor of milestones, and of those stations for awkward equestrians, which enabled many to ride the high horse, who would otherwise have been placed on their own humble footing.

From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?

We gather that whatever he may have done in the past the gallant officer does not intend to "ride the high horse" any longer.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 15, 1919 by Various

Now see here, Glasson"—Mr. Hucks filled his pipe, and having lit it, leaned both elbows on the table and stared across at his visitor— "don't you ride the high horse with me.

From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir