high on
Idioms-
Under the influence of alcohol or a drug. For example, I think he got high on marijuana before he came to the party . [c. 1930]
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Very enthusiastic about, as in They were high on video games . [1940s]
Example Sentences
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Deep in each bosom's secret cell, The hermit-sorrows lie; And thence--unheard on earth--they raise The voice of prayer on high--on high.
From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
The country was now assuming a different character, and the stream was running in a valley with rising ground--from a hundred to a hundred and fifty feet high--on each side, and was narrowing very fast.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by Overend, William Heysham
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