What is a conceited-person-as-high metaphor?

What is a conceited-person-as-high metaphor?

Definition
	A conventional metaphor in which the conceited person is represented as high up, based partly on the behavior of the conceited person in holding his head high.

Examples
	Here are some examples in English:
	You don't have to be so stuck-up. Don't you think he's a little bit uppish? She became high and mighty when she won the prize. It's time you got off your high horse.

Generic
	A conceited-person-as-high metaphor is a kind of
	What is a metaphor for conceit?

Source
	Kovecses 1986

Context for this page:

Concept module: conceited-person-as-high metaphor
In modular book: Metaphors in English, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H. Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
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