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

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 18, 2026

Presumably, that made them easier to push around.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2025

Next to it is a line of miniature carts made for children to push around the store.

From Slate Aug. 12, 2024

The buoys absorb energy from passing waves, and covert it into mechanical pumping forces that draw in seawater and push around a quarter of it through the desalination system.

From BBC Nov. 5, 2023

I am an island in the hall as people push around me.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

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