| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| High ropes | Literature | To be on the high ropes. To be very grand and mighty in demeanour. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| High ropes | Slang in 1811 | HIGH ROPES. To be on the high ropes; to be in a passion. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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