ride roughshod

In a press release afterwards, he accused the government of allowing Trump and Musk to "ride roughshod over UK interests".

He had threatened to ride roughshod over his own North American free trade deal unless those nations tightened up on border control.

Against Lewis Hamilton, Verstappen fought tooth and nail intensely all year and clinched it in that controversial finale in Abu Dhabi when the race director rode roughshod through the rule book.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the UK would not sit “idly by whilst Putin and his mafia state ride roughshod over international law, including the Chemical Weapons Convention”.

To his opponents, he was an authoritarian strongman who rode roughshod over the country's democratic institutions to preserve his hold on power.