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1 ride roughshod over smb.
(ride (trample или walk) roughshod over smb. (или smth.))тиранить кого-л.; самоуправствовать, действовать деспотически, помыкать кем-л.; совершенно не считаться с кем-л. (или с чем-л.), попирать чьё-л. человеческое достоинство‘Oh! you take that tone,’ he said, ‘Do you? You think you can ride roughshod over everything? Well, you're very much mistaken.’ (J. Galsworthy, ‘Caravan’, ‘A Stoic’) — - А! Вы начинаете разговаривать таким тоном! - сказал Вентнор. - Вы думаете, что вам удастся всегда так бесцеремонно командовать? На этот счет вы очень ошибаетесь.
...If Prussianism is to walk rough-shod over civilization... then life is not worth having. (H. G. Wells, ‘Mr. Britling Sees It Through’, book II, ch. I) —...если пруссачество будет попирать цивилизацию ногами... то жизнь потеряет всякий смысл.
They realized, too, that one of those conflicts lay before them in which there were going to be victims and perhaps loss of life. But their blood was up. The spirit of working men who had struggled against injustice and oppression all through the ages, burning in them, refused to consider any other course than resistance to those who would ride roughshod over them in order to favour the rich and powerful. (K. S. Prichard, ‘The Roaring Nineties’, ch. 50) — Они понимали также, что предстоящая стычка не обойдется без жертв, даже, быть может, будет стоить кому-нибудь из них жизни. Но это не останавливало трудового народа, из века в век борющегося против несправедливости и угнетения; боевой дух жил в каждом из них и указывал им единственный возможный для них путь - путь борьбы с теми, кто хотел растоптать их права в угоду богатым и могущественным.
The panels, in theme and execution, contradicted everything they had expected, offended against the ordinary, set the normal at defiance, rode roughshod over all their inherent ideas and traditions. (A. J. Cronin, ‘A Thing of Beauty’, part IV, ch. IX) — Панно - по теме и по манере исполнения - никак не отвечали тому, что все ожидали увидеть: такая живопись оскорбляла посредственные умы, бросала вызов всем привычным представлениям, совершенно не считалась с вековыми традициями и общепринятыми вкусами.
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