If I leave you out, dear boy, there's not one of them that I care a hang about; I'd ride roughshod over the whole lot.

[Slang]; riot, storm; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod; spread like wildfire (person).

v.. offend against the law; violate the law, infringe the law, break the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands.

From the dawn of history we find kings, nobles and priests riding roughshod over a mass of herdsmen, cultivators and artisans.

Poetry and sympathy are rode over roughshod in the contest for the race.

We all make breaks, us fellows that go at everything roughshod.

The words of Seth Wright were running roughshod through his mind.

She rode roughshod over all the other women in the Claverias, taking undue advantage of Don Antolin's supreme authority.

These people had got power for the first time in their lives and they were riding roughshod over the community.

These people had got power for the first time in their lives and they were riding roughshod over the community.

It seems sometimes as if there were only two kinds of people in the worldthose who ride over others roughshod, and those who are ridden over.

This is a delicate play, that can't be managed roughshod on horseback.

In poetry, he was untouched by Juvenal, despite some roughshod verses, and by Persius, despite his mysterious insinuations.

It is perfectly outrageous that she should have ridden roughshod over you so long.