"ride herd on" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the cowboy task of driving cattle while riding along with them.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rides herd on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riding herd on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rode herd on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ridden herd on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ride<,,rode,ridden> herd on"
      },
      "expansion": "ride herd on (third-person singular simple present rides herd on, present participle riding herd on, simple past rode herd on, past participle ridden herd on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "As the new editor, his job is to ride herd on the staff and check on the tone of the articles.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, John Updike, Rabbit is Rich:",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To supervise a group of people and their work."
      ],
      "id": "en-ride_herd_on-en-verb--1B8CO2r",
      "links": [
        [
          "supervise",
          "supervise"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic, US) To supervise a group of people and their work."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "word": "ride herd on"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the cowboy task of driving cattle while riding along with them.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rides herd on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riding herd on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rode herd on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ridden herd on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ride<,,rode,ridden> herd on"
      },
      "expansion": "ride herd on (third-person singular simple present rides herd on, present participle riding herd on, simple past rode herd on, past participle ridden herd on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "As the new editor, his job is to ride herd on the staff and check on the tone of the articles.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, John Updike, Rabbit is Rich:",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To supervise a group of people and their work."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "supervise",
          "supervise"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic, US) To supervise a group of people and their work."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "word": "ride herd on"
}