On your moral high horse

This was heard on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, 9/18/25, opening monologue. They were discussing the recent suspension of the Jimmy Kimmel Show, and opining that Hollywood is suddenly vocal that entertainment figures shouldn’t be canceled when they said nothing about the silencing of those they disagreed with. This is a mashup of “moral high ground” (status of being seen as ethically superior) and “on one’s high horse” (behaving in an arrogant or pompous way). In a way this is an incongruent conflation as the idioms seem to have opposite meanings, particularly in context. A big thanks to frequent contributor Verbatim for catching this one!