TO RIDE ROUGHSHOD (OVER, or DOWN).—To domineer; to be void of GUTS (q.v.) or BOWELS (q.v.).
1881. Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 894. Henry [VIII.], in his later proceedings, RODE ROUGHSHOD over the constitution of the Church.
1892. C. LOWE, Prince Bismarck, I. 283. The Chamber had again been RIDING ROUGHSHOD over His Majesty’s schemes of army reform.
