ride roughshod over 的定义
- Act without regard for the feelings or interests of others, as in She just forges on, riding roughshod over her colleagues. This term alludes to the practice of arming horses with horseshoes mounted with projecting nails or points, which both gave them better traction and served as a weapon against fallen enemy soldiers. By 1800 it was being used figuratively for bullying behavior.
ride roughshod over 近义词
等同于 trample
等同于 tromp
更多ride roughshod over例句
- They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.
- And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"
- Perhaps on his own nowadays, Epstein is trying his best to webmaster over a dozen URLs.
- But yes, I pictured a James Bond-type just sauntering over to her.
- The debate over who really pulled off the Sony hack, then, could continue indefinitely.
- It is most peculiar, and when he plays that way, the most bewitching little expression comes over his face.
- All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
- After we had passed over this desert, we found several garisons to defend the caravans from the violence of the Tartars.
- After relievedly giving the pistol to the nearest soldier, he stumbled quickly over to Brion and took his hand.
- Solely over one man therein thou hast quite absolute control.