knocked off high horse
- humbledReduced in status
- deflatedEmptied of pressure
- egoOne's self-image
- prideSatisfaction from one's achievements
- arrogantExcessively high self-regard
comeuppance · fall · toppled · dethroned · hubris · shamed · embarrassed · taken down · put in place · reality check · smug · conceited · humiliated · defeated · crushed · pedestal · brought low · chastened
ego state
knocked off high horsefull of oneself
Excessively self-admiring
puffed up · riding high · big-headed · swelled head · self-aggrandizing
prideful positioning
knocked off high horsesitting pretty
In favorable circumstances
on top of the world · king of the hill · top dog · above it all · untouchable