press the right button

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press/push the right button/buttons

to do exactly what is necessary to get the result that you want You have to know how to push all the right buttons if you want to be a successful diplomat. Sometimes you're interviewing someone really shy and then you press the right button and they just don't stop talking.

See also: button, press, right

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Nobody can say we have not enough to help them press the right buttons. S4C to tackle digital glitch; Boss seeks views on Welsh channel by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) Where we are staying in Dubai, all I have to do is press the right button in the lift to get from our apartment to the gym and everything I need is on the doorstep. Flintoff heads to Dubai to recuperate by The Journal (Newcastle, England) Where we are staying in Dubai, all I have to do is press the right button in the lift to get from our apartment to the gym and everything I need is on the doorstep,' The Daily times quoted Flintoff, as saying. Flintoff's three-month 'push-button' rehab stint in Dubai by Asian News International			presence present present company excepted present to preserve preserve against preserve for preserve from preside preside at preside over press press against press charges press down on press flesh press for press forward press into press into service press luck press on press onto press out of press the flesh press the right button press together pressed for money pressed for time pressure pressure into presume presume on pretend pretend that black is white pretend to pretty pretty as a picture Pretty is as pretty does pretty much pretty oneself up pretty pickle Pretty please? pretty state of affairs prevail prevail against prevail on prevent from doing prevention Prevention is better than cure prey			Press Release Distribution Press Release Network Press Release News Network Press releases Press releases Press releases Press releases press report press reporter Press revise press run Press Scrutiny and Registration Division press secretary Press Service Photo Agency Press Services of India press slide press someone to the wall Press Space to Win Press statement Press statement press stud press studs press teletype network press the flesh press the flesh press the flesh press the flesh press the panic button press the panic button press the panic button press the right button Press Through Packaging Press to Talk press to the wall press together press together Press Trust of India Press Trust of India Ltd PTI Press up Press up Press up Press up press upon press upon press upon Press work Press Your Luck Press, Frank press, freedom of the press, freedom of the press, freedom of the Press, Irina Press, Irina Natanovna Press, Radio, and Television Press, Tamara Press, Tamara Natanovna Press, The Press-Fit Condylar press-fitted press-fitted Press-fitting

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