"ride high" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "* Possibly an allusion to one who rides on horseback in an upright, proud, commanding manner.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rides high",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riding high",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rode high",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rode high",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "ride<,,rode> high"
      },
      "expansion": "ride high (third-person singular simple present rides high, present participle riding high, simple past and past participle rode high)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "tall in the saddle"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 9”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):",
          "text": "He that went away with his frock-skirts looped over his arm, comes back riding high; suddenly made one of the dignitaries of this world.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955 October 10, “Science: An Attribute of God”, in Time, retrieved 2018-01-08:",
          "text": "Many people suspect that scientists, riding high in the modern world, are uninterested in man's spiritual qualities, which cannot be subjected to test tube and microscopic analysis.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987 June 15, Susan Chira, “Honda is powered by risks”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-01-08:",
          "text": "Many analysts believe that Honda's enterprising spirit, deeply embedded in the company's culture, has been primarily responsible for its dazzling success. . . . But even as Honda rides high, the company faces challenges on several fronts.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 December 30, Ben Fong-Torres, “KNBR’s Larry Krueger: You can go home again”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2018-01-08:",
          "text": "But Radnich, 65, and Krueger, 45, have enough in common that their partnership has worked. On a station that rides high with the fortunes of the Giants, the Warriors and the Niners, the two have fended off such competitors as KGMZ.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 July 7, Abha Bhattarai, “$350 jeans are dead. $100 leggings killed them.”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2018-01-08:",
          "text": "True Religion . . . filed for bankruptcy protection this week. . . . A decade ago, the brand was riding high, commanding hundreds of dollars a pair for jeans.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enjoy good fortune; to be in a privileged situation; to be particularly happy or proud."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "good fortune",
          "good fortune"
        ],
        [
          "privileged",
          "privileged"
        ],
        [
          "happy",
          "happy"
        ],
        [
          "proud",
          "proud"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To enjoy good fortune; to be in a privileged situation; to be particularly happy or proud."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sex",
          "orig": "en:Sex",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Reproduction",
            "Fundamental",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
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          "source": "w"
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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          "_dis": "19 81",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perform the coital alignment technique."
      ],
      "id": "en-ride_high-en-verb-jt0Fse1E",
      "links": [
        [
          "sex",
          "sex"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, slang, sex) To perform the coital alignment technique."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle",
        "sex",
        "sexuality"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "* Possibly an allusion to one who rides on horseback in an upright, proud, commanding manner.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rides high",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riding high",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rode high",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rode high",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "tall in the saddle"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 9”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):",
          "text": "He that went away with his frock-skirts looped over his arm, comes back riding high; suddenly made one of the dignitaries of this world.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955 October 10, “Science: An Attribute of God”, in Time, retrieved 2018-01-08:",
          "text": "Many people suspect that scientists, riding high in the modern world, are uninterested in man's spiritual qualities, which cannot be subjected to test tube and microscopic analysis.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987 June 15, Susan Chira, “Honda is powered by risks”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-01-08:",
          "text": "Many analysts believe that Honda's enterprising spirit, deeply embedded in the company's culture, has been primarily responsible for its dazzling success. . . . But even as Honda rides high, the company faces challenges on several fronts.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 December 30, Ben Fong-Torres, “KNBR’s Larry Krueger: You can go home again”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2018-01-08:",
          "text": "But Radnich, 65, and Krueger, 45, have enough in common that their partnership has worked. On a station that rides high with the fortunes of the Giants, the Warriors and the Niners, the two have fended off such competitors as KGMZ.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 July 7, Abha Bhattarai, “$350 jeans are dead. $100 leggings killed them.”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2018-01-08:",
          "text": "True Religion . . . filed for bankruptcy protection this week. . . . A decade ago, the brand was riding high, commanding hundreds of dollars a pair for jeans.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enjoy good fortune; to be in a privileged situation; to be particularly happy or proud."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "good fortune",
          "good fortune"
        ],
        [
          "privileged",
          "privileged"
        ],
        [
          "happy",
          "happy"
        ],
        [
          "proud",
          "proud"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To enjoy good fortune; to be in a privileged situation; to be particularly happy or proud."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English slang",
        "en:Sex"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perform the coital alignment technique."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sex",
          "sex"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, slang, sex) To perform the coital alignment technique."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle",
        "sex",
        "sexuality"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "ride high"
}