high-and-mighty

adjective

Overly convinced of one's own superiority and importance: arrogant, haughty, insolent, lofty, lordly, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, supercilious, superior. Idioms: on one's high horse. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude.

Conceited, haughty, as in She was too high and mighty to make her own bed. This expression originally alluded to high-born rulers and was being transferred to the merely arrogant by the mid-1600s.

The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
  Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, magisterial, peremptory

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High and Mighty may refer to:

In music:

• High and Mighty (album), an album by Uriah Heep
• High & Mighty, an album by Gov't Mule
• High and Mighty (band), an American rap duo

In other uses:

• High and Mighty (book), a nonfiction book about SUVs by Keith Bradsher
• High and Mighty (shop), a UK big-and-tall menswear retail outlet

See also

• High and Mighty Color, a Japanese J-rock band
• The High and the Mighty (disambiguation)

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