| 词汇 | seem high-and-mighty |
| 释义 | (redirected from seem high-and-mighty)high and mightyHaughty and scornful. How can you act so high and mighty after all the mistakes you've made? high-and-mightyFig. self-important and arrogant. I don't know why William is so high-and-mighty. He's no better than the rest of us. The boss acts high-and-mighty because he can fire us all. high and mightyConceited, 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. high and mighty1 important and influential. 2 thinking or acting as though you are more important than others; arrogant. informalˌhigh and ˈmighty(informal) behaving as though you think you are more important than other people: He’s too high and mighty to mix with ordinary people like us!high and mightyArrogant, conceited. Although originally used to describe either spiritual or temporal rulers, this term soon came to mean individuals who used their position of real or imagined power to act haughtily. Thus, while fifteenth- and sixteenth-century sources might address a ruler as “Right heigh and mighty Prince” (as in Hall’s Chronicle of Edward IV, 1548), a century later Richard Whitlock (Zoötamia, 1654) would write of “their high and mighty word, Experience.” It was a cliché by the time Thackeray wrote, “Some of these bankers are as high and mighty as the oldest families” (The Newcomes, 1855). |
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