roughshod
英 [ˈrʌfʃɒd]
美 [ˈrʌfʃɑːd]
网络 峻岭长春; 马蹄上钉上凸起的防滑钉; 冷酷无情的
BNC.32907 / COCA.26438
习惯用语
adv.
- ride, etc. roughshod over sb
- (对某人)为所欲为,横行霸道;任意蹂躏
to treat sb badly and not worry about their feelings
英英释义
adj
- unjustly domineering
- incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies
- a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
- (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
- (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping