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ride roughshod over
Idioms and Phrases
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.Example Sentences
In a press release afterwards, he accused the government of allowing Trump and Musk to "ride roughshod over UK interests".
He had threatened to ride roughshod over his own North American free trade deal unless those nations tightened up on border control.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the UK would not sit “idly by whilst Putin and his mafia state ride roughshod over international law, including the Chemical Weapons Conventionâ€.
The remark was seen as a warning shot to the prime minister that an attempt to ride roughshod over the League and Forza Italia could undermine the six-month-old government and Meloni's grip on power.
"Developers are being allowed to ride roughshod over the needs of communities and the environment and this has got to stop," he added.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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