on high

Meaning

1. 1

   formal

   in a high place

   We gazed down into the valley from on high.

2. 2

   humorous

   the people in senior positions in an organization

   An order came down from on high that lunchbreaks were to be half an hour and no longer.

3. 3

   in heaven

   The disaster was seen as a judgement from on high.

In the movies · 10

• Well, everybody is on high alert.Can You Ever Forgive Me?2018
• Serizawa has all sites on high alertGodzilla: King of the Monsters2019
• God on highLes Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert2010
• Repetition will bring hell down from on high.Greyhound2020
• I ain't looking for help from on high.Serenity2005
• Let's start bagging him. Keep on high flow, too.Nightcrawler2014
• Try me. I'm hot on high-level abstraction.Ex Machina2014
• Houston, Columbia on high gain, over.Apollo 112019

Learn it in full scenes

• Can You Ever Forgive Me?2018
  • Lee Meets Jack Hock
  • Lee Asks to Be Paid in Cash
  • Lee Tells Jack Her Secret

From the same entry

• be on your high horse
• 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