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push it
Idioms and Phrases
Be overly insistent or forward, as in I promise to think over your proposal, but don't push it . This idiom uses push in the sense of “force some activity or issue.” [First half of 1800s]Example Sentences
"You try and push it out but it creeps back in."
I don’t know if they don’t know how to look at themselves, so they push it out and it’s their way of somehow connecting.
The orchestra has no music director to push it in this or that direction.
The cars are pretty new for everyone and you have to push it to understand where exactly is the limit.
"We can't ban our way out of discrimination and we can't just ban football fans from football. All we do is we push it back into society," Bush said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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