His company drove a coach and horses through employment legislation.
She produced statistics which drove a coach and horses through the chairman's argument.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
drive a coach and horses through something — british phrase to completely ignore a law or agreement and stop it being effective Thesaurus: to fail to obey a rule, law or commandsynonym obedience and cooperationhyponym Main entry: drive * * * drive a coach and ˈhorses through sth … Useful english dictionary
drive a coach and horses through — (something) British if someone drives a coach and horses through a rule, an opinion, a plan, or a tradition, they destroy it by doing something against it which it is too weak to prevent. His company drove a coach and horses through employment… … New idioms dictionary
drive a coach and horses through something — British to completely ignore a law or agreement and stop it being effective … English dictionary
drive — drive1 W1S1 [draıv] v past tense drove [drəuv US drouv] past participle driven [ˈdrıvən] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(vehicle)¦ 2¦(make somebody move)¦ 3¦(make somebody do something)¦ 4¦(make somebody/something be in a bad state)¦ 5¦(hit/push something into… … Dictionary of contemporary English
drive */*/*/ — I UK [draɪv] / US verb Word forms drive : present tense I/you/we/they drive he/she/it drives present participle driving past tense drove UK [drəʊv] / US [droʊv] past participle driven UK [ˈdrɪv(ə)n] / US 1) [intransitive/transitive] to control a… … English dictionary
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