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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Informal A mood or attitude of stubborn arrogance or contempt: Get down off your high horse and apologize.

Wiktionary

  1. n. idiomatic An appearance or sense of smug superiority.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an attitude of arrogant superiority

Examples

  • “Given the tone of Charles’s last words, Nicholas would have to be witless to do anything other than climb down off his high horse and retreat.”

    A Lady of His Own

  • “He'd been a wild, agin-the-government fellow in Afghanistan, but authority had put him on his dignity, and he rode a pretty high horse as Agent — once, for a lark, I called him "major", and he didn't even blink; ah, well, thinks I, there's none so prim as a Scotsman up in the world.”

    Flashman and the Mountain of Light

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. high
  2. carriage-horse
  3. cockhorse
  4. stepper
  5. curb
  1. withers
  2. h
  3. jolt
  4. break
  5. high-stepper
  1. carry
  2. horn-hipped
  3. overaction
  4. peacocky
  5. DavidLeeRoth
  1. high-blooded
  2. neigh
  3. high-spirited
  4. high horse
  5. piaffer
  1. American saddle horse
  2. prance
  3. roadster
  4. saddle-backed
  5. torsion meter
  1. to carry the wind
  2. brilliant
  3. cock-a-hoop
  4. hand

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