ride the high horse

Example Sentences

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It has become unfashionable to bellow; it is not considered “the thing” to ride the high horse of vehement approval and burst into luminous showers of “Amens” and “Halleleujahs.”

From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

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

There was no fear that Faith would ride the high horse with her, or lay down the law severely; she was much more likely to be too indulgent, though certain not to play with wrong.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

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