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High-flying

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

Etymology

From high + flying.

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