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high horse. In the royal pageants of Medieval England no- bles and others of high rank customarily rode “high horses,” great chargers a hand or so taller than the average mount. Rid- ing such a high horse naturally came to be equated with superi- ority and the arrogance superiority often breeds. To ride the high horse came to mean to affect arrogance or superiority, and this phrase gave us the still common to get up on one’s high horse, to scorn what we consider “beneath us.” See tell him (her) where to get off. |