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To be on the high horse or To ride the high horse. To be overbearing and arrogant. (For explanation see Horse, “To get upon your high horse.”)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.