Ride Roughshod Over Meaning

(transitive, idiomatic) To treat roughly or without care, respect, moderation, or control; to act in a bullying manner toward; to damage.

Example: 1901, Henry B. Fuller, Under the Skylights, ch. 6:
  He was brusque; he often rode roughshod over feminine sensibilities.
1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, ch. 11:
  We'll teach these magnates that they cannot ride roughshod over the rights of the commoners, confound them!
2001 June 25, Michael Fathers, "Demystifying a Demagogue," Time:
  He was a selfish, untalented and unprincipled man who rode roughshod over his mother.