There was a bit of the "de hautenbas" in Paul Tucker's evidence to the Treasury Select Committee.
BBC: Tucker: Victim of his own innocence?
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That sort of dehautenbas can get out of hand of course: one self-made man, Michael Heseltine, has been sneered at because he bought his own furniture rather than inheriting it.
FORBES: America's Most Expensive Home
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de haut en bas:
From French du haut en bas ?(“from on high to low”)