herd together

herd together

To gather people or animals together into a group. A noun or pronoun can be used between "herd" and "together." Have you ever tried to herd together a bunch of cats? Yeah, it's impossible. The teacher spent most of the field trip herding the schoolchildren together.
See also: herd, together
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

herd someone or something together

to bunch people or animals together. Let's herd all the kids together and take them in the house for ice cream and cake. I herded all the puppies together and put them in a box while I cleaned their play area.
See also: herd, together
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • draw people or things together
  • draw together
  • scrape together
  • crash together
  • keep together
  • piece together
  • splice together
  • lash together
  • knot together
  • cement together
References in periodicals archive
Council leader Warren Bradley said: "We'll keep the Eight for 08 herd together and move them around the city so everybody in every community gets the opportunity to have them there and celebrate and enjoy them."
True or False: Bighorn rams and ewes herd together year-round.
The seven of us formed a line either side of our cattle as we struggled by torchlight to keep the herd together. We coaxed them down steep banks, shouting warnings to the drovers behind us: "Watch out, there's an erosion hole to the west." (I fell into one such hole, breaking the minidisc recorder the BBC had lent me.) We pushed them through rivers, but they were reluctant to plunge into the black water, so we had to prod and cajole with whoops and whistles as we waded in behind them, clothes and rice held aloft.
The girls continually chase after straying animals to keep the herd together.
Beleaguered IT managers look at Web services and see they not only can address the issue of external integration, but also herd together all of those misbehaving internal applications.
It helps to keep the herd together, it's as simple as that, and it has stayed that way through the ages.
Herd together a score of texts on 'contemporary architectural discourse', mostly by academics, and you can bet that some will be written in Heavy American.
But it's not just safety that keeps the herd together. Juan, Jose, Josefina, and the young stay in the same area while they eat.