ride roughshod over

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ride roughshod over (someone or something)

To treat someone or something with marked disdain, brutality, or contempt; to act without regard for the wellbeing of something or someone. In her ascent to the top of the political ladder, the senator rode roughshod over anyone who stood in her way. The new management team has ridden roughshod over the projects that we've been planning for months.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

ride roughshod over someone or something

 and run roughshod over someone or something
Fig. to treat someone or something with disdain or scorn. Tom seems to ride roughshod over his friends. You shouldn't have come into our town to ride roughshod over our laws and our traditions.
See also: over, ride, roughshod
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

ride roughshod over

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.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

ride roughshod over

carry out your own plans or wishes with arrogant disregard for others.
1977 Times Literary Supplement Sociologists are notorious for their use of generalizing terms that ride roughshod over the particularities of history.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

ride ˈroughshod over somebody/something

(especially British English) (American English usually run ˈroughshod over somebody/something) treat somebody/somebody’s feelings, ideas, protests, etc. with no respect at all because you do not consider them important: The local authority rode roughshod over the protests of parents and closed down the school.
Roughshod is an old word to describe a horse that was wearing shoes with nails that stick out.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

ride roughshod over

To treat with brutal force: a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition.
See also: over, ride, roughshod
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

ride roughshod over, to

To act without consideration for another’s feelings or interests. The term comes from the seventeenth-century practice of arming cavalry horses with horseshoes mounted with projecting nails or points. This not only gave the horses better footing on slippery terrain but also served as a weapon against fallen enemy troops. Within the next hundred years or so the term was transferred to domineering behavior, overriding others without regard or respect. An 1861 issue of the Saturday Review stated, “We have ridden roughshod over neutrals in our time.”
See also: ride, roughshod
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • be/have done with somebody/something
  • be rough on (someone or something)
  • be in line with (someone or something)
  • better of
  • begin with
  • begin with (someone or something)
  • bird has flown, the
  • beware of
  • beware of (someone or something)
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Let's just hope the necessary authorities now take a pragmatic view and make this a workable scheme in conjunction with the local residents, and not ride roughshod over their fight to maintain the Dixie Dean playing fields.
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So property developers are upset they cannot ride roughshod over a community.
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Equally, it doesn't excuse Thomsonfly's disregard for the impact of their operations on local communities and their attempt to ride roughshod over the formal consultation process by imposing their own man (Lord Snape) and barring anyone who disagrees with them.
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Once he's conned us into giving him a further five years in office, he will again ride roughshod over the trusting majority.
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And the ``National Council'' clinches it, an embarrassingly condescending concession to Wales that only goes to prove that their ``democracy'' is based more on anti-EU xenophobia than any concern over the transition of powers to and from sovereign states, and their views ride roughshod over the needs of smaller nations and cultures in an increasingly globalised world.
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An insider said: "It might be a soap but the producers do not ride roughshod over laws and situations in real life."
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So you have made it easy for him to ride roughshod over you.
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The only satisfied people will be health service and hospital managers who ride roughshod over the feelings of the people they are supposed to serve.
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But the demands of business and finance have not been allowed to ride roughshod over the protection of wildlife.
Editorial Comment
But the Blairites can no longer be s o cocky and ride roughshod over both Parliament and the wider Labour Party.
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THE Government's shake-up in the planning system will lead to ``precious'' greenbelt land being concreted as centralised policy-makers ride roughshod over the wishes of local people, the Conservatives warned yesterday.
Tories warn of threat to greenbelt
Mr Mitchell said: 'I am extremely concerned about the cavalier way in which phone companies ride roughshod over local concerns.
MP joins mobile phone mast battle
This has certainly changed and the Revenue Commissioners deserve praise for making sure the cowboys no longer ride roughshod over the consumer.
IRISH DAILY Mirror COMMENT: Building a deterrent to tax fraud
READING of John Prescott's intention to bulldoze 20,000-plus houses and ride roughshod over the people's wishes, reminds me of another Labour party disaster - the Hatton era.
You say: Disaster awaits