get on your high horse
Definition
› to start talking angrily about something bad that someone else has done as if you feel you are better or more clever than they areShowing arrogance and conceitConfidence and self-assuranceBoasting
(Definition of get on your high horse from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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get on the right/wrong side of sb idiom
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get on to/onto sth phrasal verb (PERSON)
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get on to/onto sth phrasal verb (SUBJECT)
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get on top of you idiom
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get on with sth phrasal verb
- get on your high horse idiom
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get on your soapbox idiom
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get out of bed (on) the wrong side idiom
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get out of my face! idiom
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get out of my sight! idiom
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get out of sth phrasal verb (AVOID)
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Synonyms and related words:
- (as) proud as Lucifer idiom
- a cut above idiom
- airs and graces idiom
- arrogant adjective
- as if you owned the place idiom
- egotistic adjective
- haughty adjective
- high and mighty idiom
- high-flown adjective
- highfalutin adjective
- portentous adjective
- proud adjective (FEELING IMPORTANT)
- proudly adverb
- put on the dog idiom
- self-appointed adjective
- throw your weight around/about idiom
- tin god noun
- toffee-nosed adjective
- too big for your boots idiom
- uppity adjective
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