highflying
or high-fly·ing
[hahy-flahy-ing]
- moving upward to or along at a considerable height: highflying planes.
- extravagant or extreme in aims, opinions, etc.; unduly lofty: highflying ideas about life.
- having a high cost or perceived value: the highflying glamour stocks.
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Origin of highflying
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Contemporary Examples
For a high-flying financier gone bad, faking your own death is a tempting escape from legal woes.
The once high-flying company, which saw sales fall sharply in 2009, is finding it difficult to mimic its early-stage growth.
Not from high-flying trading or investment banking, but from a boring, stodgy business: lending money to homeowners.
But the plan misfired, and when Laura found herself on her own at college, her high-flying life went into a nosedive.
After his high-flying student years at Karachi University, he worked for the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong.
Historical Examples
"High-flying adventurer," or "brigand-chief," by all means, if it please you.
The Life of Cesare BorgiaRaphael Sabatini
The high-flying, loud-screeching swift is an instance of this.
Poachers and PoachingJohn Watson
The smaller vanities worked with these high-flying sentiments.
A Young Man's YearAnthony Hope
Yet she had no idea how immense, how romantic, how high-flying the devotion was.
A Young Man's YearAnthony Hope
Less would be useless, said Horace, in his high-flying arrogance.
The House on the Moor, v. 3/3Mrs. Oliphant
high-flying
- having great ambition or ability
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