high-up

O'Donnell's first instinct when confronted with accusations of shady finances has been to allege a high-up conspiracy.

In the old days the attaché-case was the peculiar trademark of private secretaries and diplomats and high-up people like that.

But he had to return to the high-up little room; and that night he lay awake.

The natives could not see how a man who wore such boots could be anything but a high-up thoroughbred.