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height
noun▶ from a great height
used to intensify the infliction of punishment or suffering UK, 1961
Always preceded with the passive sense of a verb combined with “on”, e.g. “come down on”.- Yet somehow I’m feeling that the fuzz [the police] have got a trap here. Like I just take another step forward and I shall be dropped on from a great height. — Alan Hunter, Gently in Trees, 1974
- “You cannot quote me–a word out of place and I get crapped on from a very great height,” said one academic. — The Observer, 3 September 2000
- I always knew that as soon as there was any controversy, any chink in my armour that I was going to be dropped on from a great height. — Croydon Guardian, 28 June 2001
- And I want to help you sort out whoever’s trying to shit on you from a great height. — Judith Cutler, Power on Her Own, p. 86, 2003
- [H]ow to keep smiling when you’re being shat on from a great height. We all need to know how to do that. — Guy Browning, Innervation, 2003
- Labour has not run Waltham Forest well for years but what is unprecedented is the severity of the treatment handed out by the Labour party to someone who knew what the problems were and was making an effort to get on top of them, whether or not he was being successful. He has been jumped on from a great height. — The Guardian, 28 July 2003
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