high-and-mightiness

Updated: May 22, 2025

He had had another meeting with Engineer Lassen; they had walked up the river as before and sat talking for an hour, and when Grindhusen came back he showed a new two-Kroner piece he'd got. Then he went on the drink again, and gabbled about being in the engineer's confidence. This evening, too, he was all high-and-mightiness, not to be outdone by anybody. "Come in and sit down," he said to me.

Knut Hamsun - Wanderers

I've often thought I could teach those cooks of Marc Antony's something you remember, don't you, they used to keep six dinners going all at different stages of preparation because they never knew at what hour His High-and-mightiness might choose to dine. Or perhaps you don't know? Football men don't have to study, do they?"

Stewart Edward White - The Rules of the Game