ride the high horse

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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.

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

Look here, Mrs. Burrill number one, don't you take advantage of your position, and ride the high horse too free.

From The Diamond Coterie by Lynch, Lawrence L.

Is it to have, with endless jargoning, debating, motioning and counter-motioning, a settlement effected between the Honorable Mr. This and the Honorable Mr. That, as to their respective pretensions to ride the high horse?

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

To "ride the high horse," my brave Brummagem boy, Is doubtless, to you, a delight and a joy; But little avails that equestrian quest, If the fruit of your ride is the merest "mare's nest."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 27, 1891 by Various