get off one's high horse

verb

To stop acting in an imperious, overbearing or bossy manner.

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Meanings

verbget off one's high horse (third-person singular simple present gets off one's high horse, present participle getting off one's high horse, simple past got off one's high horse, past participle (UK) got off one's high horse or (US) gotten off one's high horse)

present singular third person gets off one's high horse · participle present getting off one's high horse · past got off one's high horse · UK participle past got off one's high horse · US participle past gotten off one's high horse

  1. idiomaticTo stop acting in an imperious, overbearing or bossy manner.

    I can't get off my high horse / And I can't let you go / You are the one who / You are the one who makes me feel / So real, yeah, yeah, yeah

    1984, Jocelyn Brown, “Somebody Else's Guy”, in Somebody Else's Guy
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Chicago

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