Associations to the word «Highflier»
Wiktionary
HIGHFLIER, noun. A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
HIGHFLIER, noun. (idiomatic) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.
Dictionary definition
HIGHFLIER, noun. A person of great ability and ambition.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.