get off your high horse

get off your high horse
get off (your) high horse to stop acting as if you are better or more intelligent than other people.

He never got off his high horse long enough to consider how insulting his words were to many immigrants.

Usage notes: also used in the forms knock someone off their high horse and fall off your high horse

New idioms dictionary. 2014.

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  • get off your high horse — come/get (down) off your high horse to stop talking as if you were better or more clever than other people. It s time you came down off your high horse and admitted you might have made a mistake …   New idioms dictionary

  • get off your high horse — do not act like you are better than everyone else    Colin acts so superior! Tell him to get off his high horse …   English idioms

  • off your high horse — See get off your high horse …   English idioms

  • get down off your high horse — come/get (down) off your high horse to stop talking as if you were better or more clever than other people. It s time you came down off your high horse and admitted you might have made a mistake …   New idioms dictionary

  • come down off your high horse — See get off your high horse …   English idioms

  • come off your high horse — come/get (down) off your high horse to stop talking as if you were better or more clever than other people. It s time you came down off your high horse and admitted you might have made a mistake …   New idioms dictionary

  • come down off your high horse — come/get (down) off your high horse to stop talking as if you were better or more clever than other people. It s time you came down off your high horse and admitted you might have made a mistake …   New idioms dictionary

  • get down off your high horse — See: OFF ONE S HIGH HORSE …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • get down off your high horse — See: OFF ONE S HIGH HORSE …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • get\ down\ off\ your\ high\ horse — See: off one s high horse …   Словарь американских идиом

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