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When you outrank the rules instead of following them.
means To use higher authority or force to cancel a decision, command, or automatic process.
from Built from 'over' plus 'ride' — literally to ride over something, as a horse and rider trample over whatever's beneath them. The literal sense is old, but the figurative use for overruling a person or decision, and later for manually overruling a machine's automatic setting, grew naturally from that image of riding roughshod over an obstacle.
- origin
- literally meant riding a horse past exhaustion
- coding sense
- child function elbows past its parent's version
- power move
- used by both vetoes and stubborn teenagers
- risk
- skips the safety checks that logic built in