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Rough-shod

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Riding rough-shod over one. Treating one without the least consideration. The allusion is to riding a horse rough-shod.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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