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push around

Idioms  

  1. Treat or threaten to treat roughly, bully, domineer, as in I won't let him push me around. [Colloquial; c. 1920]

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You have to be big and not be pushed around easily.

From BBC

It was the look of a young man who had just been cruelly pushed around by someone with more power.

From Los Angeles Times

“The Germans want to cooperate but are fed up with being pushed around by the French,” said Nick Cunningham, a defense analyst at Agency Partners.

From The Wall Street Journal

"This one was probably pushed around by other territorial owners and decided that he could make this trip," Kessler said.

From BBC

And he seems prepared to push around everyone else to get it.

From The Wall Street Journal

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