10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TO GET ON YOUR HIGH HORSE»
Discover the use of
to get on your high horse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
to get on your high horse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Speaking of Animals: A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors
GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE See Get on Your High Horse. GET ON THE
HORN See Horn. GET ON THE STICK See Hobby. GET ON YOUR HIGH HORSE
to get on your high horse. To become arrogant or haughty. WNNCD: 14th cent.
Robert Allen Palmatier, 1995
2
Build
Your Own Life: A Self-Help Guide For Individuals With ...
... someone dislike you To get up your nose — to be very annoying/irritating To
get warmed up — to gradually become enthusiastic about something To get on
your high horse — become/feel offended. Retaliate 166 BUILD YOUR OWN LIFE.
3
Short-Term Couple Therapy
DAN: (to Joanne) But then you had to get on your high horse! Oh, so that's it! (I
have shifted back into a collaborative mode, which enables me to resume as
Dan's spokesperson and scriptwriter.) THERAPIST: Okay, Dan, so you're saying
to ...
4
The Two-Headed Eagle: In Which Otto Prohaska Takes a Break ...
"Prohaska: you're not in a position to get on your high horse. Look, I'll come
straight with you: I'm inviting you to join us." "Join mutineers and murderers? You
must be out of your mind. But why on earth do you think that I'd want to join you ...
5
Breaking Into the Boys' Club: 8 Ways for Women
to Get Ahead ...
Resist the impulse to get on your high horse and disparage harmless kidding or
even a prank here or there. Women should show their sense of humor, through
actively participating or showing appreciation for the banter or joke. The simple
act ...
Molly Dickinson Shepard, Jane K. Stimmler, Peter J. Dean, 2009
6
Samlee's Daughter: A Novel
replies Babyji, “No need to get on your high horse! If I've failed to present my
clinching argument thus far it is only because a big phoren trained intellectual
like yourself knows only too well that by the transcendental declension of Noam ...
“You don't have to get on your high horse with me. It ain't worth it.” She sipped her
drink. Her words had sounded priggish even in her own ears. She stared down at
the table. “I'm a lousy lover too,” he continued easily, speaking in a soft foggy ...
8
The Recalcitrant Art: Diotima's Letters
to Holderlin and ...
I'll do no more than help you with "a few corrections and suggestions," as you
requested — I owe you at least that much, I know, you don't have to get on your
high horse. But if you say "contract" to me one more time I'll roll it up and beat you
...
Susette Borkenstein Gontard, Douglas F. Kenney, Sabine Menner-Bettscheid, 2000
9
The Gospel according
to Chegem: being the further adventures ...
You've got no reason to get on your high horse! But whenever you drink you
immediately get on your high horse!" O rayda Gudisa-khatsa, hey . . . O rayda
siua rayda, O rayda he-ey . . . Kyazym struck up an Abkhazian song, and Bakhut
...
10
The Cat's Pyjamas: The Penguin Book of Clichés
If you get in high dudgeon, you might also be tempted to get on your high horse.
This apparently metaphorical expression reflects physical reality. The original
sense of high horse was the sort of massive charger that was ridden by knights in
...
