单词 | rough-ride |
释义 | rough-ridev. 1. a. transitive. To treat roughly or forcefully, esp. in order to train or instruct; (later chiefly) to domineer over, tyrannize. Cf. to ride roughshod over (see roughshod adj. Phrases). ΚΠ 1791 World 14 Sept. Whenever the Party find a Green-horn, they at first give him in the charge of an understrapper, who rough rides him, and prepares him for the finish—so it is with Lord D——e. 1832 Durham Chron. 1 June in Electors' Scrap Bk. 6/1 The infamous usurpations which have so long enabled them..to rough-ride the people of England. 1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden I. xxxi. 386 He subdued a powerful nobility who rough-rode the crown, and whose conduct was more tyrannous and wicked than that of any despot. 1918 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 144 Doubtless they were worried by stupid Russian bureaucrats, and rough-ridden by the reactionary Court of Nicholas II. 2004 ‘V. Nirtist’ Pitfall of Truth v. 122 The country quickly came under the influence of Rome, and then Rome conquered it outright. The country was heavily taxed and rough-ridden. b. intransitive. To domineer over. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > oppress [verb (intransitive)] > domineer lord1548 to play rex1556 lord1563 to play the rex1570 domineer1591 seniorize1593 lady1600 squire1672 prime1756 rough-ride1835 imperialize1843 society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride an unbroken horse rough-ride1835 1835 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 17 ii. 177/2 Are we not rough-ridden over by the law and lawyers? 1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 32 She rough-rides over every one and everything. 1940 Paris (Texas) News 22 July 4/2 Roosevelt,..trying to rough-ride over Taft, got his ears pinned back in a scrap over seating of delegates. 1997 Roanoke (Va.) Times (Nexis) 24 Apr. a14 That group called Citizens Against the Prison was roughriding all over everybody in Wythe County. 2. transitive. literal. To ride (a horse) using forceful or commanding actions, esp. so as to train or break it. Also intransitive. Now rare.Perhaps the original sense. ΚΠ 1805 I. D'Israeli Flim-flams! II. xxxii. 210 He advised rough-riding an old broken-winded post-horse. 1832 T. H. Lister Arlington xvi. 111 An awkward, hard-mouthed, half-broken brute, that is hardly fit to be rough-ridden by an under groom. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 92 I'll break him; I can rough-ride a bit. 1900 W. S. Dixon Sport of Kings vi. 48 I take it that no man who hunts for pleasure wants to spend his time rough-riding a raw or unformed horse, or re-breaking one that does not come nicely to his hand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1791 |
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