push it

1. 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

Still, she has clever ideas about how to keep Downton Abbey afloat and to push it into the modern age as she finally takes the reins from her father.

From Los Angeles Times

Many typical measures aimed to raise revenue push it up, and that was the experience last year.

From BBC

A new government could, with a mandate and healthy majority, try to push it through faster - but policy advisers in Whitehall would warn ministers that rushing the job means a bad job that could later become unworkable.

From BBC

"Aerodynamics have evolved massively, I feel I'll be in a very, very good place to forward the record on and push it on and make it something big again," Bjergfelt said.

From BBC

They must hope that, as Joe Root suggested last week, Stokes knows his body best and will not push it beyond its limits again.

From BBC