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Phrase(s): ride on something
1. Lit. to travel on something. • Do you like to ride on the train? • I have never ridden on a horse. 2. Fig. to be borne on something and carried along. (On something other than a means of transportation.) • She rode on a wave of popularity to reelection. • He rode on his past laurels as long as he could., Phrase(s): ride on
to continue to ride, traveling onward. • We rode on for at least an hour before finding a rest stop. • They rode on for a while., Phrase(s): ride (up)on someone or something
to use someone or something as a beast of burden. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) • As a game, the children used to ride on their father. • We rode upon burros along the narrow mountain trails.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs