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high places

plural noun

  1. positions and offices of influence and importance

    a scandal in high places

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Then he quotes Abraham Lincoln, just before his assassination: “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country…corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign.”

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It's always nice to have friends in high places.

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The Reform UK leader has friends in high places and friends with deep pockets.

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“This is a media-savvy movement, filling the airwaves with claims that those opposed to them are cutural Marxists, communists and, in the words of Wallnau, demons that have to be removed from the high places of culture and society,” Tabachnick said.

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"This is a media-savvy movement, filling the airwaves with claims that those opposed to them are cutural Marxists, communists and demons that have to be removed from the high places of culture and society."

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