high and mighty

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An arrogant or self-important person. idiomatic
    — My connection with these high-and-mighties ought to be purely professional, and so, in a manner, it is, but on the top of it I find myself drawn into a full-blooded, old haunted house mystery that takes me clean out of my depth.
形容词 adj.
  1. Overbearingly arrogant; ostentatiously self-important or self-aggrandizing. figuratively
    — The high and mighty are to be found at the Fairlawn Country Club on pleasant afternoons.
  2. A courtesy title applied to members of the States General of the Dutch Republic. historical
    — To the High and Migthie Lords States-Generall at The Haghe. (…) Most High and Mightie Lords, After I had my dispatch from the king of Barbary Muley Sidan, the same day I was to embarke, came to me the alkaid of Saffia with a packet of letters directed to Your High and Mightie Lords, whearin one (as he told me) for the king of Frannce, which he said the King commanded him to deliver unto me with his owne hands, and that I lykewise should deliver them my selfe.

词形变化

higher and mightier comparative more high and mighty comparative highest and mightiest superlative most high and mighty superlative high and mighties plural
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