- 看过 ride herd on 的人也看了 :
- drive
- keep watch
- shepherd
ride herd on 的定义
- Keep close watch or tight control over, as in Aunt Martha is always riding herd on her bridge club, making sure they follow the rules. This idiom alludes to the cowboy who rides around a herd of cattle to keep them together. [Late 1800s]
ride herd on 近义词
keep control over
ride herd on 的近义词 4 个
更多ride herd on例句
- Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
- It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
- I told them it was back where I parked my car, so they offered me a ride.
- Possibly, he would not shy at such monstrosities after twenty miles of a lathering ride.
- The other day an excursion was arranged to Sondershausen, a town about three hours' ride from Weimar in the cars.
- The truth is, it is not safe to trot down such mountains and hardly to ride down them at all.
- The farmer told him it was six miles; "but," he added, "you must ride sharp, or you will get a wet jacket before you reach it."
- I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.