Meaning of high road | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A course of action which is dignified, honourable, or respectable.
   idiomatic
2. A main road or highway.
   British
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see high, road.

Equivalents

Examples

“The high road of public service and the low road of political advantage seem inextricably intertwined.”

“On Wednesday, the 27th, we arrived at a place⟳ called Tʻien-chin. Here we were not on the high road to Pekin, hence the excitement created by our arrival was greater than I had ever before witnessed.”

“There, a few yards before them, was the high road from Risingham to Shoreby, lying, at this point⟳, between two even walls of forest.”

“The highroad on the other side was frequented by few, for a nearer-hand way to the west had been made through the lower Moss.”

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