ride out

Verb

ride out (third-person singular simple present rides out, present participle riding out, simple past rode out, past participle ridden out)

1. (transitive) To survive in a storm (about a ship) and keep afloat.
2. (broadly, idiomatic, transitive) To tackle a difficult situation and survive; to survive through; to weather.
   • In deep underground basing, missiles are buried in tunnels in mountainsides where they are able to ride out a nuclear attack. Following the attack the missiles dig themselves out of the tunnels to the surface and launch themselves.1989, Barbara Goss Levi, Mark Sakitt, The Future of Land Based-Strategic Missiles, page 174
   • Following chaos on Wall Street yesterday, and in which Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs became the latest US financial institutions to come under fire, the chancellor attempted to reassure the public that Britain could ride out the crisis.2008 September 18, Graeme Wearden, quoting Alistair Darling, “Markets slide again but chancellor says Britain can ride out the crisis”, in The Guardian
3. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To go out in a vehicle with one's friends or crew.
   • Let's ride out and see what we can get into.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ride, out.