high on the hog
Well off; living comfortably or extravagantly due to great wealth or financial security.
Ever since his promotion, they’ve been living high on the hog.
high
/haɪ/
adj 5noun 5adv 3verb 2name 1
Collocations
8(noun.) high level or point
ADJ
all-time, new, record
VERB + HIGH
hit, reach
When the basketball player jumped, she hit a new personal high score in the championship game.
(noun.) feeling of great pleasure or happiness
ADJ
real, tremendous | emotional
VERB + HIGH
experience, get
After winning the championship, the team experienced a high that lasted for weeks.
give sb
Winning the championship gave the team such a high that they celebrated all night.
PREP
on a ~
After winning the championship, the team wanted to end their season on a high.
PHRASES
the highs and lows
Life is full of highs and lows, but we learn something valuable from each experience.
Definitions
adj
1
Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
The balloon rose high in the sky. The wall was high. a high mountain
Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole, Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.
2
Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
A nightgown with a high neck and long sleeves may have the fullness set into a yoke.
3
Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
the pitch (or: the ball) was high
4
Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
5
Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
three feet high three Mount Everests high
I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
adv
1
In or to an elevated position.
How high above land did you fly?
The desks were piled high with magazines.
2
In or at a great value.
Costs have grown higher this year again.
3
At a pitch of great frequency.
I certainly can't sing that high.
noun
1
A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven) or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
It was one of the highs of his career.
Inflation reached a ten-year high.
2
A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven) or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
Today's high was 32 °C.
3
A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
Falling from cloud nine / Crashing from the high / I'm letting go tonight / Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine
They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.
4
A drug that gives such a high.
No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
5
A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
A large high is centred on the Azores.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through
- highschool
noun — a high place
- heights
adjective — slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (
adjective — (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted
- gamey
- gamy
adjective — used of sounds and voices
adjective — standing above others in quality or position
adverb — in a rich manner
- richly
- luxuriously
Antonyms
- low
- low-pitched
Idioms & Phrases
leave someone high and dry
To abandon somebody; to stop providing assistance at a crucial moment.
He just walked out and left her high and dry with two kids and a mortgage.
on one's high horse
Self-righteous; proceeding on the belief one is more correct or proper than others.
When she gets on her high horse there is not much to do but go along with it or wait for it to pass.
in high dudgeon
Resentfully or furiously, with indignation or pomposity.
When civil dudgeon first grew high, \ And men fell out, they knew not why; \ When hard words, jealousies, and fears, \ Set folks together by the ears..
high noon
Exactly noon; midday (when the sun is at its highest).
The same streets that are inviting and quiet at high noon may be intimidating at night.
Example Bank
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The balloon rose high in the sky. The wall was high. a high mountain
Wiktionary02
Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole, Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.
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The Chitistone River Valley offers a more direct route for travel from McCarthy to the White River and the Shushana gold placers than Skolai Creek, but it involves a high climb over the so-called “goa
Wiktionary04
How high above land did you fly?
Wiktionary05
The desks were piled high with magazines.
Wiktionary06
Costs have grown higher this year again.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
i Register
In some senses, high is marked as informal, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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