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Definition of Ride herd on
1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic US) To supervise a group of people, such as workers, and/or their actions, i.e. their work. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ride Herd On
Literary usage of Ride herd on
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Documents of Dissent: Chinese Political Thought Since Mao by James Chester Cheng (1980)
"In my view, many of these people will in the future drive away the Americans who
ride herd on them because Japan is really a great nation. ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"The boys here wanted a eatin'-joint, bein' tired of the local hash, which I honest
can tell yu' was most dam bad; so they gets her down here to ride herd on ..."
3. The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 by Kenneth M. Setton (1978)
"There too they saw with grim satisfaction the graves and unburied bodies of
countless Turks who would never ride herd on Christians again. ..."
4. Power and Market by Murray N. Rothbard (2006)
"The inefficient achieve a legal claim to ride herd on the efficient. This is all
the more true since those who succeed in any ..."
5. Johnny Nelson: How a One-time Pupil of Hopalong Cassidy of the Famous Bar-20 by Clarence Edward Mulford (1920)
"... What you wants is another outfit to ride herd on this one," sympathized Dave.
"Lookin' for Smitty?" " He's one of 'em. Have you seen him ? " " I have. ..."
6. A Captain Unafraid: The Strange Adventures of Dynamite Johny O'Brien as Set by John O'Brien, Horace Herbert Smith (1912)
"There must have been twenty-five of them, and they proceeded to "ride herd" on
us in the style taught in all good schools for sleuths. ..."
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