ride the high horse
Example Sentences
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The high horse, truly; indeed, you shall ride the high horse!
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William
‘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
Pompeius was jealous and apt to ride the high horse.
From Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men by Hamilton, Mary Agnes
Increasing riches had not softened his nature, for he was grumpy and fussy, and apt to ride the high horse on every occasion.
From A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
