ride herd on
verbEtymology
From the cowboy task of driving cattle while riding along with them.
Definitions
To supervise.
- As the new editor, his job is to ride herd on the staff and check on the tone of the articles.
- But Rabbit feels as though he owns it all, showing up at the showroom day after day, riding herd on the paperwork and the payroll […]
- She'd gotten swept up in running the B&B and riding herd on her sister, Zoey, but she'd kept the faith.
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