high horse

1. 1.

   an attitude of arrogant superiority

   “get off your high horse and admit you are wrong”

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Questions about high horse

What does high horse mean?

high horse means "an attitude of arrogant superiority".

Is high horse a common word?

high horse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.