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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.
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the high and mighty (humorous)

important people. The prince was only allowed to socialize with the high and mighty and had no contact with ordinary people.
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high and mighty
as if you are more important than other people. The members of the club all act high and mighty.
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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.
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.
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.
 
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