high and mighty
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[edit]high and mighty (comparative higher and mightier or more high and mighty, superlative highest and mightiest or most high and mighty)
- (idiomatic) Overbearingly arrogant; ostentatiously self-important or self-aggrandizing.
- The high and mighty are to be found at the Fairlawn Country Club on pleasant afternoons.
- Ever since she was placed in the gifted program, she's become so high and mighty that no one wants to be near her.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 179:
- When Inanna returns she finds that Dumuzi has not been lamenting her but has been acting high and mighty in his seat of kingship.
- 2023 September 2, Simon Schama, “The real Rino”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:
- For the swooning faithful, all the high-and-mighty talk of the rule of the law is of little account compared with the hot flush, the racing pulse, the pure yee-haw MAGA-hellion USA high they get from glowing in the radiant heat of the Strong Man.
Translations
[edit]overbearingly arrogant
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