highflying

[ hahy-flahy-ing ]

/ ˈhaɪˈflaɪ ɪŋ /

moving upward to or along at a considerable height: highflying planes.

extravagant or extreme in aims, opinions, etc.; unduly lofty: highflying ideas about life.

having a high cost or perceived value: the highflying glamour stocks.

Origin of highflying

First recorded in 1575–85; high + flying

For a high-flying financier gone bad, faking your own death is a tempting escape from legal woes.

First Rule of the Fake Dead Bankers Club: Stay Gone |Daniel Gross |January 3, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The once high-flying company, which saw sales fall sharply in 2009, is finding it difficult to mimic its early-stage growth.

Crocs Stock Falls on Critical Research Report |Edward Ferguson |August 8, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Not from high-flying trading or investment banking, but from a boring, stodgy business: lending money to homeowners.

JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and Homeowners Profit With Help From the Fed |Matthew Zeitlin |October 12, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
But the plan misfired, and when Laura found herself on her own at college, her high-flying life went into a nosedive.

Laura Johnson, London’s Poor Little Rich Rioter, Awaits Sentencing |Peter Popham |April 30, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

After his high-flying student years at Karachi University, he worked for the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong.

Their Man in Washington |John Barry |October 7, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Well, all I remember thinking is that the high-flying June bug would get away, or that some other scientist would capture him.

The Motor Boys Over the Ocean |Clarence Young
The tumbling habit was gradually bred out of the high-flying birds, and after a time many of them did not tumble at all.

Our Domestic Birds |John H. Robinson
Toward dawn, the birds began, high-flying parrots and then the garden orioles.

When the Owl Cries |Paul Bartlett
You know very well, the great business of the high-flying Whigs, at this juncture, is to endeavour a repeal of the test clause.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. VII |Jonathan Swift
And some few are so honest that they pass by as harmlessly as a wedge of high-flying wild duck.

Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 |Charles Dudley Warner

high-flying

having great ambition or ability