high and mighty

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high and mighty

someone who is high and mighty behaves as if they are more important than other people Ellie's started acting all high and mighty since she got her promotion. (humorous)

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But in the great Sperm Whale, this high and mighty god-like dignity inherent in the brow is so immensely amplified, that gazing on it, in that full front view, you feel the Deity and the dread powers more forcibly than in beholding any other object in living nature. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context Richard was bending and bowing and scraping and walking backward, just as if he had that high and mighty minister, the under-secretary for fine arts, before him. The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context I found her to be high and mighty, chiefly, I think, because she now wore a nurse's cap with streamers, of which the little creature was ludicrously proud. The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew View in context			Here's your hat, what's your hurry? here, there, and everywhere herring hesitate hesitate over het up hew hew down hew out of hew to hidden hidden agenda hide hide a multitude of sins hide away hide behind hide face in shame hide from hide head in the sand hide in hide light under a bushel hide nor hair hide out high high and dry high and mighty high as a kite high jinks high man on the totem pole high muck-a-muck high roller high-and-mighty high-pressure into highly highly-strung hightail it out of highway highway robbery highways and byways hike hike up hill him himself hind hind end hinder from hindmost hindside first hinge on hint			High Altitude Transition High Altitude Trombone Quartet High Altitude Warfare Experimental Squadron High Altitude Warfare School High Altitude Warfare X High Altitude Water Cherenkov telescope High Altitude, Long Loiter High Altitude-Endurance Aerostat Radar High altitudes High Alumina Cement High Aluminum Defect High Ambient High Amount Lock Out High Amplitude Low Frequency Pulses High Amplitude Multi-Roll Surround high amplitude peristaltic contraction high and dry high and dry high and dry high and dry high and dry high and low high and low high and low high and low High and low level (description) High and low level (description) High and low level (description) High and Low Sodium Dialysate High and Low Speed Maglev Dualmode Transportation System high and mighty High and Mighty Color High and New Technology Development Area High and New Technology Enterprises high angle High Angle Annular Dark Field STEM Detector High Angle Conveyor high angle fire High Angle of Attack High Angle Reverse Fault High Angle Rock Rescue High Angle Search And Rescue High Angle Strafe High Angle X Ray Diffraction High Anglican High Anglican High Anglican Church High Anglicanism High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging High Anion Gap Metabolic Acidosis High Annular Dark Field High Antennas for Radio Communications High Apparent Nucleic Acid high arch High Arctic High Arctic High Arctic Large Igneous Province

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