How to Use high horse in a Sentence

high horse

noun

• I won't deal with you until you get off your high horse and stop patronizing me.
• Get off your high horse and follow the customer and your team.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• In response, Heiners tells her to get off her high horse.
  — Joanna Biggs, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Before Democrats climb too far up on their high horse though, there is more than enough hypocrisy to go around.
  — Michael Tanner, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017
• She’s been my most steadfast foil for years, always ready with a quip to knock me off my high horse.
  — cleveland, 31 July 2021
• Just emphasize your concern and leave the high horse at home.
  — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 22 May 2020
• Getting off my high horse, here’s one of my extended puns — straight from the horse’s mouth.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• Follow Jesus on Christmas and climb down off your moral high horse.
  — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, 25 Dec. 2017
• There’s a reason Scott doesn’t travel anywhere by high horse.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 18 July 2020
• But also that people don’t want to get off their high horses and talk about practical stuff.
  — Anand Giridharadas / London, Time, 10 June 2019
• Officers got off their high horse and jailed Waldner, who was also charged with possession of coke, records show.
  — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• Chase may be sitting on the high horse today—flush with deposits and sky-high interest income – but its day is coming soon as well.
  — Don Muir, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Emmert might as well dismount from the high horse, hand in his sheriff’s badge and enter the transfer portal to irrelevance.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
• Trying to climb on any high horse would only be embarrassing at best, and at the very least hypocritical.
  — Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 5 Jan. 2021
• The vandals apparently felt the 32-foot-high horse of a different color ought to be at least partially orange.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• LeBron James is living on a high horse in a multimillion dollar house, living near nothing but White people.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 22 Apr. 2021
• Harbaugh won’t face nearly the same punishment or scrutiny because college football hopped down from its high horse.
  — cleveland, 7 Jan. 2023
• Daniel Roher just knocked Putin off his high horse, dedicating his Oscar to political prisoners around the world.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2023
• If not for the 0.8% promise made by an Italian government that has been voted out of power by the Italians themselves, the EU is normally entitled to get on a high horse only when a member’s deficit reaches 3%.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
• Visible displays of sustainability — and the moralistic high horse that comes with them — has become yet a status symbol.
  — Sydney Clarke, refinery29.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• This isn’t a social-justice high horse, Lindsay and others insist, just an attempt to point out the obliviousness and privilege that allowed someone to green-light this campaign without stopping to think about the context.
  — Dan Adams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Churchill Downs, however, has a higher horse mortality rate than Santa Anita.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 27 June 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024