push it

Idioms  

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]

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Example Sentences

Rising Treasury yields on Tuesday will likely push it higher still.

From MarketWatch

“He keeps asking to go home and I’m like, it’s not there. He says, ‘I’ll push it back up.

From MarketWatch

"But because he left him there… and just to pick his motorbike up and push it down the street like nothing has happened, it doesn't sit well with me at all."

From BBC

Stepping back, however, the benchmark remains just a few points north of its late October levels and investors are starting to show signs of fatigue in trying, and failing, over several different rallies to push it over 7000.

From Barron's

Up until then everything that had happened had made my old heart as heavy as lead, but when the little mare gave me that push it just hauled off and melted.

From Literature