be on your high horse

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to behave in a way that shows you think you are better than other people

   I CYCLED ALL THE WAY FROM CARMODY TO TELL YOU SOMETHING I FOUND OUT ABOUT DIANA BARRY TODAY.

   Since we were kids, my sister and I, all we ever had was each other.

In the movies · 2

• I CYCLED ALL THE WAY FROM CARMODY TO TELL YOU SOMETHING I FOUND OUT ABOUT DIANA BARRY TODAY.Anne of Avonlea1987
• Since we were kids, my sister and I, all we ever had was each other.The Spanish Prisoner1997
• Oh, get off your high horse. Stop judging people.Wedding Crashers2005
• You do what you want to do up on your high horses. Everything's a joke.Donnie Brasco1997
• Gil: DON'T GET UP ON YOUR HIGH HORSE WITH ME, ANNE SHIRLEY.Anne of Avonlea1987
• Oh, why don't you get off your high horse?Anne of Green Gables1985
• Look, I respect you, we all respect you, but get off your moral high horse and...Beaches1988
• Why don't you come down off your high horse, babe.You Can't Take It with You1938

Learn it in full scenes

• Beaches1988
  • CC Meets Hillary on the Boardwalk
  • CC Melts Down After Losing the Part
  • CC and Hillary Grow Up by Letter
• You Can't Take It with You1938
  • Kirby Plans the Munitions Monopoly
  • Poppins Becomes a Lily of the Field
  • A Day in the Sycamore House

From the same entry

• have a high old time
• high and dry
• high and mighty
• high as a kite
• in high dudgeon
• smell, stink, to high heaven
• hell or high water
• take, claim, seize, the moral high ground
• of a high order
• a high profile
• it's about time
• on high