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What is "high road"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
high road
noun
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▪ A horse whinnied and reared; the troop trotted quickly out of the inn yard towards the high road.
▪ A paved high road forded the stream.
▪ He screamed as loudly as his horse that was now blocking the high road with its failing death throes.
▪ Instead, I decided to take the high road.
▪ She was at least making the attempt to take the high road, only to run into a dead end.
▪ We seemed to drift into tranquility once we reached the long plateau stretch on the high road to Taos.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
high road

high road \high road\ n. The most ethical and honest method; -- used mostly in the phrase to take the high road (as in an election campaign). Contrasted with low road.

Wiktionary
high road

alt. 1 (context chiefly British English) A main road or highway. 2 (context idiomatic English) A course of action which is honorable, dignified, or respectable. n. 1 (context chiefly British English) A main road or highway. 2 (context idiomatic English) A course of action which is honorable, dignified, or respectable.

Wikipedia
High Road

High Road may refer to:

  • High Road, Perth
  • Tottenham High Road
  • High Roads (comics), a comic book series created by Scott Lobdell and Leinil Francis Yu
  • High Road (film), a 2012 comedy directed by Matt Walsh
  • Kilburn High Road
  • Team High Road and Team High Road Women professional cycling teams
  • "High Road", fictional location in the Sword Coast region of the Forgotten Realms world
  • The High Road (novel) - a 1988 novel by Edna O'Brien
High Road (film)

High Road is a 2011 American improvised comedy film directed by Matt Walsh, who co-wrote it with Josh Weiner. The film surrounds a young man whose loyalties are torn between his band, girlfriend, and dealing weed. Attempting to elude arrest after a drug bust, he is accompanied by his teenage runaway neighbor. It stars James Pumphrey, Abby Elliott, Dylan O'Brien, and Rob Riggle. It also premiered at the 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival, where for Matt Walsh's directing, it won an honor for Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking.

High Road (album)

High Road is an album by Canadian folk rock band The Grapes of Wrath, released March 19, 2013 on Aporia Records. It is the band's first album of new material since Field Trip in 2000, and the first to feature all three of the band's original members since 1991's These Days. The tracks "Good To See You" and "Take On The Day" had previously appeared on the band's compilation album Singles, released in 2012.

High Road (Mastodon song)

"High Road" is a single by American heavy metal band Mastodon. The song was released as the debut single from their sixth album, Once More 'Round the Sun. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, but lost to Tenacious D's cover of Dio's " The Last in Line."