ride the high horse

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If you ride the high horse I may tell my pack to set you ashore somewhere else, but if you’re civil—well, we shall see.

From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by Greene, J. B.

‘I don’t know, Sir Watkin; it is well to ride the high horse now and then.’

From Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

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

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

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