run roughshod over
English
Verb
run roughshod over (third-person singular simple present runs roughshod over, present participle running roughshod over, simple past ran roughshod over, past participle run roughshod over)
- Synonym of ride roughshod over
- 2014, Jacob T. Levy, “The Constitutional Entrenchment of Federalism”, in James E. Fleming and Jacob T. Levy, editors, Federalism and Subsidiarity, New York, N.Y.; London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 347:
- [I]f the demos really were like a passionate drunk, willing and able to run roughshod over minorities, then it might also be willing and able to run roughshod over the judiciary or the constitution.
- 2021 July 8, Sheera Frenkel; Cecilia Kang, quoting Mark Zuckerberg, “Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- The announcement was also a tacit acknowledgment of Facebook’s yearslong failure to control hazardous rhetoric running roughshod on the social network, particularly during the election.
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