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
  • Just emphasize your concern and leave the high horse at home.
    — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 22 May 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And, by the way, Tim Walz gets on his high horse about mind your own damn business.
    — ABC News, 11 Aug. 2024
  • There’s a reason Scott doesn’t travel anywhere by high horse.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 18 July 2020
  • Come down off your high horse and do right by the legal, taxpaying citizens of your city!
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Follow Jesus on Christmas and climb down off your moral high horse.
    — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, 25 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • The Air sign likes to advise those in need, and will get up on their high horse and grandstand so their views can be heard.
    — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • To put it nicely, James is high horse moral blowhard on a lot of things, and one is being vegan.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 20 May 2026
  • Next week, Weapons finally faces a contender with a good shot at knocking it off its high horse.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Harbaugh won’t face nearly the same punishment or scrutiny because college football hopped down from its high horse.
    — cleveland, 7 Jan. 2023
  • There are few things in this world more sanctimonious and hypocritical than left-wing sportswriters getting on their faux moral high horse.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • Jayden, continuing to gallop on his high horse, has trusted himself as the saviour of their relationship and by proxy, Tori.
    — Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 12 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • That said, Stanbury is approaching the show with a much more expressive approach to showing her life after being knocked off her high horse last season.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 3 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Churchill Downs, however, has a higher horse mortality rate than Santa Anita.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Not that Slusser cares or is interested because her moral high horse is far too tall to allow for much research, but Hentges was non-tendered by the Cleveland Guardians after the 2025 season.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026

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