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21high-falutin' — also highfalutin, 1848, U.S. slang, possibly from high flying, or flown, or even flute …
22Flying trapeze — Brief historyTrapeze dates back to 1856, when Jules Leotard used to swing from cables attached to air vents over the pool of his parents’ gymnasium in Toulouse, France. One day he attached a metal bar to the cables and the Flying Trapeze was born …
23Flying Imams controversy — The Flying Imams controversy (sometimes humorously referred to as sheiks on a plane, [ [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12352772 Amendment Aims to Protect Terrorism Tipsters] (audio)] a reference to the movie Snakes on a… …
24high — adj., n., & adv. adj. 1 a of great vertical extent (a high building). b (predic.; often in comb.) of a specified height (one inch high; water was waist high). 2 a far above ground or sea level etc. (a high altitude). b inland, esp. when raised… …
25Flying High (chanson) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Flying High. Flying High Single par Captain Hollywood Project extrait de l’album Animals Or Human Durée 3:44 Genre …
26High Flier — A stock that has seen its share price and subsequently its valuation rise to high multiples on metrics such as current earnings and current sales. Usually, the rise will happen quickly, with the stock well outpacing the gains in the overall… …
27high flown — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, absurd, affected, aggrandized, ambitious, amplified, arrogant, ballyhooed, bedizened, beyond belief, big, big sounding, bizarre, bombastic, classy, cockamamie, condescending, convoluted, crazy …
28high sounding — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, alto, bedizened, big sounding, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, falsetto, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose,… …
29high-flyer — (also high flier) noun a person who is or has the potential to be very successful. Derivatives high flying adjective …
30high-flier — noun (C) someone who is extremely successful in their job or in school: a young businessman pegged as a high flier by the media high flying adjective …
