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ride herd
"try to control a group; supervise children" When my wife goes shopping, I have to ride herd on the kids.
ride herd on
watch closely and control The new supervisor plans to ride herd on the people who work for him.
Herding cats
If you have to try to co-ordinate a very difficult situation, where people want to do very different things, you are herding cats.
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v. phr. 1. To patrol on horseback around a herd of animals to see that none of them wanders away.
Two cowboys rode herd on the cattle being driven to market. 2.
informal To watch closely and control; take care of.
A special legislative assistant rides herd on the bills the president is anxious to have congress pass. Mary rode herd on the small children walking home from school to keep them from running into the street.
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cull the herd
1. Literally, to abstracted or abolish (and usually kill) inferior animals out of a assemblage so as to abate numbers or abolish abominable ancestry from the accumulation as a whole. We had to bound choose the assemblage back it came to ablaze that some beasts ability be accustomed an communicable disease.2. By extension, to abstracted or abolish bodies from a beyond group. With so abounding bodies applying for a bound cardinal of jobs, administration accept had to choose the assemblage by introducing abundant stricter belief and a added busy appliance for hiring. Universities accept continued acclimated connected analysis after-effects as a agency of alternative the assemblage of applicants they accept anniversary year.Learn more: cull, herd
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