Meanings of high flyer in English

It would also create room to promote a high flyer from within the cabinet.

Before he went bust, Henshaw had been a high flyer.

You've been a high flyer in your day, haven't you?

The carriage was a high flyer: a dangerous open-topped contraption, rarely driven by a woman.

US: A new kind of spacecraft slung from an improbable high flyer could make history today.

Larry Page dated former Google high flyer turned Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in the early 2000s.

Such was the life of a high flyer.

She 's a high flyer, she is, an' she 's got the Leftenant goin' all right.

Martin is the high flyer who has risen in the amoral worlds of politics and the media.

For Lisa is no high flyer.

The prospect of a high flyer being parachuted into a group can magnify feelings of insecurity and exacerbate existing tensions.

In mere moments, the high flyer was gone, rattling down the footpath and disappearing behind the small coppice of birch trees.

This grim, bedraggled figure had once been a debutante and a high flyer, until she made the mistake of experimenting with her grandfather's formula.

SOCIALLY the composer Harold Arlen was not a high flyer, but on one occasion in the mid 1950s he went dancing with Marilyn Monroe.

The case of Thanh, a former high flyer accused of causing losses and mismanagement at PetroVietnam Construction JSC, was part of a government anti-corruption drive.

Pretty hairy stuff, if you happen to be the UK foreign office's youngest ambassador, a high flyer well on your way to a glittering career.