get off one's high horse
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editget off one's high horse (third-person singular simple present gets off one's high horse, present participle getting off one's high horse, simple past got off one's high horse, past participle (UK) got off one's high horse or (US) gotten off one's high horse)
- (idiomatic) To stop acting in an imperious, overbearing or bossy manner.