ride roughshod over

Language: en

Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)Totreat(someone)roughlyor withoutcare,control,moderation, orrespect; toactin abullyingmannertoward (someone); todamage(someone or something).Synonyms:ride over,run roughshod over1795,The Festival of Wit, Being a Collection of Bon-mots, Anecdotes, etc. of the Most Exalted Characters, volume[I], Dresden:[…]C. and F. Walther,→OCLC,page48:[B]eing in high ſpirits, after dinner, one of them being called upon for a toaſt, gave, „The d——lride roughſhod overthe raſcally part of the creation.”1839,[H. M. Fletcher], chapter VII, inThe Wizard of Windshaw. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century.[…], volume III, London: J. W. Southgate,[…],→OCLC,page173:[H]ad the Commons of England been of his way of thinking,Charles [I of England] and his prerogative would haveridden roughshod overtheir necks at will.1845September, “Woman Lost, Woman Restored, and Man Warned”, inThe Mariners’ Church Gospel Temperance Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Magazine, volume XXV, number 9, London: Naval and Military Office,[…], and by Basteil,[…]for theTemperance British and Foreign Seaman, Soldiers, and Steamers’ Friend Society, and Bethel Flag Union,→OCLC,page412:Thus, revelling amidst the wrecks of poor, feeble, helpless, ruinedwoman, manrides roughshod overhis slaughtered victim, (Jehulike), saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to adddrunkennessto thirst."1869,Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 33, inLittle Women:[…], part second, Boston, Mass.:Roberts Brothers,→OCLC:He's so absent-minded and goodnatured, he lets those boysride overhimroughshod.1894May,Rudyard Kipling, “Her Majesty's Servants”, inThe Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.:Macmillan and Co., publishedJune 1894,→OCLC:“[…]where I come from we aren't accustomed to beingridden over roughshodby any parrot-mouthed, pig-headed mule in a pop-gun pea-shooter battery. Are you ready?”1901,Henry B[lake] Fuller, “The Downfall of Abner Joyce”, inUnder the Skylights, New York, N.Y.:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC, chapter VI,page28:He was brusque; he oftenrode roughshod overfeminine sensibilities.1901August –1902April,A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Man on the Tor”, inThe Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, London:George Newnes,[…], published1902,→OCLC,page246:We'll teach these magnates that they cannotride rough-shod overthe rights of the commoners, confound them!2001June 25, Michael Fathers, “Demystifying a Demagogue”, inTime‎[2], New York, N.Y.:Time Warner Publishing,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon1 October 2009:He [Sanjay Gandhi] was a selfish, untalented and unprincipled man whorode roughshod overhis mother [Indira Gandhi].2003August 3, Stephen Pritchard, “Racist or just anti-Sharon?”, inThe Guardian‎[3]:[Richard] Ingrams has always enjoyed a reputation for insensitivity. As with other columnists in the British press, he treads on toes to make his point andrides roughshod overissues that others handle with kid gloves, or avoid altogether.2011,Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, “Address to the Constituent National Assembly[31 July 1848]”, in Paul Sharkey, transl., edited by Iain McKay,Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology, Oakland, Calif.; Edinburgh:AK Press,→ISBN,page345:The intention was, inriding roughshod overme, toride roughshod oversocialism at a stroke, which is to say,ride roughshod overthe protests coming from the proletariat and, in so doing, to take another stride down the path of reaction.

Examples:

EN: You men won't be able to ride roughshod over your wives again.
ES: Ustedes los hombres no podrán seguir subyugando a sus esposas.
EN: But Ichabod was confident he'd soon ride roughshod over these simple country bumpkins.
ES: Pero Ichabod estaba mas que confiado... que el le ganaría a todo ese grupo de ignorantes.
EN: You wanted to ride roughshod over all our rules.
ES: Usted quería saltarse todas nuestras normas.
EN: I sold it to a man nobody can ride roughshod over.
ES: Se lo vendí a quien nadie puede pisotear.
EN: I establish order, ride roughshod over offenders.
ES: Yo me encargo de mantener la paz y el orden.
EN: If we let shysters like Gingrich ride roughshod over the laws of this land...
ES: Si permitimos que un picapleitos como Gingrich pisotee la ley...
EN: We must teach these magnets they cannot ride roughshod over the rights of commoners.
ES: Debemos enseñar a estas personas, que no pueden pasar rudamente sobre los derechos de los comunes.
ES: Les enseñaremos a los magnates... a no abusar de los derechos de los comunes.
EN: You taught me a great deal, Peter, about protocol, bureaucracy-- all the things I'm inclined to ride roughshod over.
ES: Me diste una gran enseñanza, Peter sobre protocolo, burocracia todas las cosas que he estado inclinado a pisotear.
EN: You think you can ride roughshod over me?
ES: ¿Me quieres jubilar?
EN: That's a slippery slope. Using the bogeyman to ride roughshod over people's rights.
ES: Puede volverse en su contra... usar al coco para pisotear los derechos de la gente.
EN: Nero has no right to ride roughshod over everything Rome stands for.
ES: Nerón no tiene derecho a tratar desconsideradamente a todo lo que Roma representa.
EN: Don't ride roughshod over my authority."
ES: No pase por encima de mi autoridad".
EN: To ride roughshod over me with your inoffensive indie music?
ES: ¿Para pisotearme con tu inofensiva música indie?
EN: I think I speak as America's president when I say that America won't help England to continue to ride roughshod over colonial peoples.
ES: Creo que hablo como el presidente de los Estados Unidos cuando digo que mi país no ayudará a Inglaterra a que continúe tratando miserablemente a las gentes de las colonias.
EN: You've allowed that boy to ride roughshod over you and everyone else in this city.
ES: Le permitiste a ese muchacho pasar sobre ti y todo el mundo en esta ciudad

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