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The trust has been overshadowed by his urge to interfere in politics, to slag off doctors and architects and to provide, in some less definable, though reliably nonsensical, way, de haut en bas spiritual instruction.

There is also a serious risk that Cameron could seem to be behaving de haut en bas: the smooth and ruddy-cheeked squire, gazing down with a courteous smile upon the callow upstart at the cottage door.

With quite a terrific de haut en bas swipe, she wrote off this culture secretary – and indeed most of her predecessors – as a political minnow, unworthy of her attention.

Lloyd HughesWelshpool, Powys • There has always been a whiff of de haut en bas elitism around those who are happy to allow a referendum to settle the constitutional relationship between Scotland and the rest of the UK but who oppose a referendum to settle the constitutional relationship between the UK and the EU.

Some regard him with de haut en bas disdain.