riding high
Enjoying great success
Riding high means enjoying success, confidence, or good fortune.
The image is of someone elevated above ordinary circumstances, often after an achievement or stroke of luck: The team was riding high after their championship win.
The phrase often implies a peak that may not last: She's riding high now, but the industry is fickle.
- winning streakConsecutive successes over time
- on a rollEnjoying repeated successes
- triumphResounding, celebrated victory
- jockeyingCompeting for advantage
- victoryDefeating an opponent
on fire · confidence · pride · elation · accomplishment · fame · prosperity · momentum · breakthrough · on top · top of the world · recognition · spotlight · joy · exhilaration · optimism · self-assurance · mastery
- advantagesedge, leverage, upper hand, leg up, head start
- luckgood luck, bad luck, lucky, luckily, pure luck
- momentumbuilding momentum, gain traction, gaining traction, gaining steam, gather steam
riding highstruggling
Experiencing serious difficulty
failing · down and out · in dire straits · on the skids · on the ropes
riding highdown in the dumps
Sad and dispirited
crushed · demoralized · despondent · crestfallen · dejected
riding highfallen from grace
Lost former high standing
has-been · washed up · down on one's luck · in the gutter · finished
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