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Ride herd on

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To supervise. US, idiomatic, transitive

    "As the new editor, his job is to ride herd on the staff and check on the tone of the articles."

  2. 2
    driving animals such as horses and cattle while riding along with them wordnet

Etymology

From the cowboy task of driving cattle while riding along with them.

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