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Idioms and Phrases

Do administrative, often petty, paperwork. For example, She spent the whole day pushing paper for her boss . [ Colloquial ; second half of 1900s]
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The rest push paper with uninteresting colleagues and over time, youā€™ll become like them.

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Letā€™s say Kansasā€™s Devon Dotson got to sit in a padded chair and push paper for his cut of $1 billion, while he suggested that Emmert and ACC Commissioner John Swofford should jiggle up and down the court, swapping potentially viral fluids and risking their health and futures?

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ā€œWhat they can do in absence of a quorum is push paper around,ā€ he said.

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He hasnā€™t ruled out a return to coaching as an assistant if he ā€œfound a job where I could actually coach and not push paper all day.ā€

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Glover plays Earn, an aspiring rap manager whose cousin has a song and a dream; Earnā€™s attempts to push ā€œPaper Boiā€ to stardom, and himself to stardom-adjacent comfort, run up against the wall of reality.

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