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High Ropes

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To be on the high ropes. To be very grand and mighty in demeanour.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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High-born
High Church
High Days = festivals
High Falutin or Hifaluten
High Hand
High Heels and Low Heels
High Horse
High Jinks
High Life
High Places
High Ropes
High Seas
High Tea (A)
High Words
Highgate
Highland Bail
Highland Mary
Highlands of Scotland (The)
Highlanders of Attica
Highness
Highwaymen