Crossword clues for roughshod
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roughshod \Rough"shod\, a. Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.
To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a horse English) having hooves shod with calks or horseshoes that have projecting nails to prevent slipping 2 (context by extension English) brutal or domineering
WordNet
adj. (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, savage, vicious]
unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition" [syn: heavy-handed]
Wikipedia
Roughshod literally means having rough shoes (especially referring to a horse). It may also refer to:
- Roughshod (1922 film), a 1922 American western film directed by B. Reeves Eason
- Roughshod (film), a 1949 American western film directed by Mark Robson
- Roughshod (1951), novel by Norman A. Fox, later filmed as Gunsmoke (film) (1953)
- "Roughshod" (1959), a B-side song by Link Wray
- Roughshod (2006), a folk album by Horseplay (band)
Roughshod ( 1949) is a black-and-white Western film directed by Mark Robson, starring Gloria Grahame and Robert Sterling.
Usage examples of "roughshod".
The terms and all its connotations ran roughshod across his brain as he followed Merissa toward the sound of the splash and the bayou.
He was the one straddling the two communities, enforcing the laws as he saw fit, allowing Bonita Vista to run roughshod over the town.
She cared little for bureaucracies creaking roughshod over the world, but Dare Atwood, Cuddy, Scottie Sorensen--they were all the people Caroline loved, the only ones left to protect.
Pemulis is telling Penn that there's a critical distinction between horning in and letting asswipes like Jeffrey Joseph Penn run roughshod over the delimiting boundaries that are Eschaton's very life-blood.
Certainly any outfit that hired Vin Boling to ramrod such a deal, and men like Pace, Mather, and Bordie to carry it out, was planning on riding roughshod over any opposition.
Valerie Breaux, daughter of her deceased Uncle Henri, made no apologies for her roughshod, fast-track career path from jury consultant to Court TV anchor.
On the face of it, to volt back to our desultory horses, and for your roughshod mind, bafflelost bull, the affair is a thing once for all done and there you are somewhere and finished in a certain time, be it a day or a year or even supposing, it should eventually turn out to be a serial number of goodness gracious alone knows how many days or years.
Balch acted like a man who'd ride roughshod over everything or anybody.
He regretted only that they had hesitated to ride roughshod over Carpenter, Marable and the lot of them.
No Calder is going to ride roughshod on us little guys and ever get away with it again.
To put that railroad through on schedule Mike King would ride roughshod through and over anything that got in the way.
She thinks she's so high and mighty and can just ride roughshod over us because we collect their rubbish!
In some ways, the Lizards were very much like his own people: if you convinced one of them you had superior status, he would grovel, but he would ride roughshod over you if he thought himself of the higher rank.
It was the single most effective constraint on the power of the nobility, who no longer dared ride roughshod over their tenants.
Could man in his vanity and pride ride roughshod through space and time forever, forcing his will on all other living creatures, giving them life or death according to his sufferance?