high-flying
adjEtymology From high + flying.
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Characteristic of a highflier; extravagant in conduct or opinion.
- As a bright young engineering graduate in the early 2000s she worked for a year as a "high-flying" analyst at Merrill Lynch, before she quit in disgust to write a novel based on the experience.2013 June 23, Katy Guest, “Polly Courtney interview: The voice of the recession generation”, in The Independent: