КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «BE ON ONE'S HIGH HORSE»
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English/German Dictionary of Idioms: Supplement to the ...
... horse Roß: von seinem hohen Roß heruntersteigen/herunterkommen (müssen
) to harness a horse Geschirr: (einem Pferd) das Geschirr anlegen to be on one's
high horse Pferd: auf dem hohen Pferd sitzen • Roß: auf dem hohen Roß sitzen ...
Professor Hans Schemann, 2013
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Bartlett's Roget's Thesaurus
... be on guard fence 153.7 be on hand attend 575.14 be on one's best behavior
have good manners 410.10 be on one's good or best behavior be virtuous 447.8
be on one's guard be cautious 287.11 be on one's high horse disdain 297.14 be
...
Little Brown & Company, 2003
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
To be on one's high horse, to ride the high horse. To be overbearing and
arrogant ; to give oneself airs. To ride on the horse tot/ft ten toes. To walk ; to ride
on Shanks's mare To set the cart before the horse. See Cart. When the horse is
stolen, ...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 2001
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German/English Dictionary of Idioms
... 7 auch, wenn er nicht gewinnt. auf dem hohen Pferd sitzen ugs selten — auf
dem hohen Roß sitzen - to be on one's high horse. to give 0.s. airs du suchst/er
sucht/... das Pferd und sitzt/... drauf ugs scherzh selten 7 du suchst/er suehtl.
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Human Behavior: The New Synthesis
... to-hold-one's-head-high instinct high, your-spirits-are-high instinct high horse,
to-be-on-one's-high-horse instinct high places, dread-of-or-in-high-places instinct
high-risk, high-risk-behaviors instincts high spirits, to-be-in-high-spirits instinct ...
Mitch C. Bronston, Nils K. Oeijord, 2001
... down," "Take the bull by the horns," "The bark is worse than the bite," "Pig in a
poke," "Monkey on the back," "Black sheep," "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth,"
"To get one's goat," "Let sleeping dogs lie," "To be on one's high horse," "To kiss ...
... instinct high, to-feel-an-unpleasantly-high-temperature instinct high, to-hold-
one's-head-high instinct high, your-spirits-are-high instinct high horse, to-be-on-
one's-high-horse instinct high places, ...
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Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication
In English, there are not many comparable figurative expressions with the same
meaning. There is the expression relating to being on horseback, 'to be on one's
high horse', meaning haughty or arrogant. However, this does not have the ...
Fiona MacArthur, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García, 2012
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The German Language Today: A Linguistic Introduction
Ro is used in elevated styles and in certain expressions, for example auf seinem
hohen Ro 'to be on one's high horse'. Jost Trier (1894–1971) was one of the main
scholars who put forward theories about lexical semantic fields in the 1930s.
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
high horse To be on one's "high horse" is to be disdainful or conceited: "Sally got
tired of Peter's snobbery and finally told him to get off his high horse." hit below
the belt To say something that is often too personal, usually irrelevant, and
always ...
Eric Donald Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James S. Trefil, 2002
