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Idiom

higher than a kite

Meaning

Very much under the influence of drugs.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“He acted strange, as if he were higher than a kite.”

“The party guests were clearly higher than a kite, so we decided to leave early.”

“The witness appeared entirely detached from reality, behaving as though he were higher than a kite during the entire interrogation.”

Examples

simple

“He acted strange, as if he were higher than a kite.”

contextual

“The party guests were clearly higher than a kite, so we decided to leave early.”

complex

“The witness appeared entirely detached from reality, behaving as though he were higher than a kite during the entire interrogation.”

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