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Someone who gets on their ‘high horse’ is behaving overbearingly in a superior manner. Many an opinionated know-it-all has been told to ‘get off your high horse’. The phrase dates back to the eighteenth century and alludes to army officers’ practice of riding horses whose size reflected the riders’ position in the military. A high-ranking officer rode a higher horse than an officer of more modest rank.