Brewer's: De Haut en Bas

Superciliously.

“She used to treat him a little de haut en bas.”

—C.Reade.

But Du haut en bas. From top to bottom.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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