我们可以对行为言语盛气凌人、趾高气扬、摆大架子的人说get off your high horse, get down off your high horse或come off your high horse.
　　例句：
　　Stop criticising everyone! You should get down off your high horse and admit that you aren't perfect either!
　　John used to tell his fellow classmates what a genius he was. But after he got a couple of bad marks, he had to come off his high horse and study as hard as everyone else.
　　注意：
　　短语to back the wrong horse的意思是下错赌注、支持失败的一方。
　　例句：
　　Our boss should have promoted me to senior management. Peter doesn't have enough experience to be in that position. The boss backed the wrong horse!
　　常识补充：
　　Archaeologists think that horses were first tamed and exploited by humans some 6,000 years ago in west Kazakhstan.
　　考古学家认为，大约六千年前马在西哈萨克斯坦首次被人类驯化并使用。

本文来自：逍遥右脑记忆 http://www.jiyifa.net/gaozhong/983905.html

相关阅读：常考词的语法与用法：affect