High can mean different things when it is used idiomatically. But the basic meaning is 'elevated'.
- high life, high living: luxurious and pleasurable living.
- high noon: 12 o'clock in the middle of the day, then the summer is at its highest.
- to be high (inf.): to be extremely high-spirited after taking alcohol or drugs.
- to be / get on one's high horse: to behave in a proud manner. In a haughty manner or mood; bossy. Larry is on his high horse again, bossing people around.
- high and dry: isolated, stranded.
Jack was left high and dry when he lost all his money.
- high and low: everywhere.
- high-powered: of great vitality, dynamic, intense.
- to be for the high jump (inf.): due to be hanged (for murder).
- fly high: to be full of hope or elation.
His stories began to sell, and he was flying high.
- high on (inf.): enthusiastic or optimistic about; having a favorable attitude toward or opinion of.
- blow sky-high: destroy by explosion, explode.
Once the charge is set, get away fast or you'll be blown sky-high.
- hold one's head high / up: behave proudly; maintain one's dignity.
After the bankruptcy Mr. Jones still held his head high.
Grandma told Brian he could hold his head up because he'd tried extremely hard.
After that newspaper article, I'm not sure I'll ever hold up my head again.
- knee-high to a grasshopper: of very short stature.
I knew you when you were knee-high to a grasshopper.
- in high dudgeon: furiously, resentfully.
He stormed out in high dudgeon.
- ride high: Enjoy success
He's been riding high ever since they made him vice-president.
- stink / smell to high heaven: be of very poor quality; also, be suspect or in bad repute. This expression alludes to something so rank that it can be smelled from a great distance.
This plan of yours stinks to high heaven.
His financial schemes smell to high heaven; I'm sure they're dishonest.
- run high: be intense. This expression, first recorded in 1711, transfers the strong currents or tides that make for high waves to human concerns.
Feelings are running high on the issue of raising taxes.
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