high hand

For more than a year now you have carried things with a high hand.

He carried things with a high hand, indeed, treating the partners as he might a graceless lot of undisciplined midshipmen.

It was plain that through her career she would expect to carry things with a high hand.

They will want a show of gold at a humbler place, and at the Star we may carry matters with a high hand.

The Court hereupon sometimes thought to carry it with a high hand, and question Sir John for his words, and maintain the action.