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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