roughshod
英 ['rʌfʃɒd]
美['rʌfʃɑd]
- adj. 马蹄上装有防滑钉的；冷酷无情的
英英释意
- 1. (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping
- 2. (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"
- 3. unjustly domineering;
- "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic economic policies"
- "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"