HIGH HORSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high horse mean? 

• HIGH HORSE (noun)
  The noun HIGH HORSE has 1 sense:

1. an attitude of arrogant superiority

  Familiarity information: HIGH HORSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH HORSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An attitude of arrogant superiority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

get off your high horse and admit you are wrong

Hypernyms ("high horse" is a kind of...):

attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)

 Context examples 

She appeared to be on her high horse to-night; both her words and her air seemed intended to excite not only the admiration, but the amazement of her auditors: she was evidently bent on striking them as something very dashing and daring indeed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)