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roughshod
/ ˈʌˌʃɒ /
adjective
- (of a horse) shod with rough-bottomed shoes to prevent sliding
adverb
- ride roughshod overto domineer over or act with complete disregard for
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Origin of roughshod1
Idioms and Phrases
- ride roughshod over, to treat harshly or domineeringly; override; crush:
He rode roughshod over his friends to advance himself in the business world.
Example Sentences
That’s largely because of popular distaste for Musk’s role at DOGE, the quasi-governmental agency that has run roughshod through government programs, causing chaos in its wake.
He addresses Rubio's concerns about Musk's widespread power to run roughshod over the federal government and even gives his one-time opponent a chance to shine.
In the waning days of the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a series of lawsuits against financial companies it accused of running roughshod over the public.
In a press release afterwards, he accused the government of allowing Trump and Musk to "ride roughshod over UK interests".
AliKhan said in her ruling that the admin's “actions in this case potentially run roughshod over a ‘bulwark of the Constitution’ by interfering with Congress’s appropriation of federal funds.”
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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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