Getting on your high horse means that you are looking down on someone with a haughty or superior attitude.
Nothing. The correct idiom is "get OFF your high horse," meaning stop acting so conceited as if you are above everyone else.
Nothing. The correct idiom is "get OFF your high horse," meaning stop acting so conceited as if you are above everyone else.
"Get off your high horse" means to stop being so prideful and full of your self.
As in "I am so hungry, I could eat a horse"- means you are extremely hungry- since a horse is VERY big.
It's not an idiom, it's a saying. If the horse is blind, it can't see either the nod or the wink, so they'd mean the same thing to the horse. You nod when you're agreeing and you wink when you're sneaking around with something.
Condescending or supercilious toward
This isn't an idiom - it's talking about some animal with their tail held high, flying behind them.
The horse and carriage are obsolete as modes of transportation, so this idiom means that something has become obsolete or passed out of common usage.
This is not an idiom. Idioms make little or no sense unless you know the definition. This sentence makes perfect sense, so it is not an idiom. The dead fish smelled so bad that even as high as Heaven, you could smell them.
"Sky high" just means very high. You usually hear this as "blown sky high," which would mean either (literally) something exploded and was thrown high in the air, or (figuratively) that someone's plans were thoroughly destroyed.
One such idiom is "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth."
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This idiom comes from horse racing. You'd bet on whichever horse's nose would come in first. If you make a good guess, you're "on the nose."