High horse

[bartholomew]

Can anyone give a good example of how to use the following expression, videlicet:

Get on one's high horse

Thanx

[andy hughes]

i was trying to discuss the football with Fred last week. He he got on his high horse as usual, and wouldn't listen to a word I said - he thinks he's the only person with any opinions, and his is always right!

[woofgang]

yeah that Fred, he's such a fool!

[Peter Pedant]

....Bush got on his high horse and said that the Iraq was about Freedom and Liberty rather than oil and contracts for his cronies....

[michghetti]

When she heard the sorority was considering mud wrestling as a fund-raising activity, she got on her high horse and refused to have anything to do with it!