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push around

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push someone around
Fig. to harass someone physically; to jostle someone. (See also push someone or something about.) I wish you would stop pushing me around all the time. Stop pushing Max around if you know what's good for you.
See also: around, push

push (somebody) around also push around somebody
to threaten to hurt someone who is smaller or weaker I feel like I'm in third grade and the fourth-grade bully is pushing me around and trying to steal my baseball cards. I was a lot skinnier then and could get pushed around.
See also: around, push


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The Explorers have done various fundraising activities to help them go to Poland, including a bed push around the streets of Llangollen earlier in the year.
If you find a herd where a bull has been fighting or pushing around all day, he will likely not respond, but will simply push around in his own herd.
Staff of Bannatyne Lodge held a wheelchair push around local shops to raise pounds 130 for the Residents Amenities Fund.
 
 
 
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