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Run roughshod   /rən rˈəfʃˈɑd/   Listen
Run roughshod

verb
1.
Treat inconsiderately or harshly.  Synonym: ride roughshod.





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"Run roughshod" Quotes from Famous Books



... was no sense in thinking about her all the time, the way he had been doing. Also, he told himself savagely that if Harry ever crossed his trail again, there would be something doing. This thing of letting a cur like that run roughshod over a man on account of a girl that didn't care was plumb idiotic. And beside him the cattle walked and walked and walked, a dim, moving mass ...
— Rowdy of the Cross L • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B.M. Bower


Words linked to "Run roughshod" :   ride roughshod, handle, do by, treat


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