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push around
Treat or threaten to treat roughly, bully, domineer, as in I won't let him push me around. [Colloquial; c. 1920]
Example Sentences
So when those days roll around, it goes without saying: you don’t want a “mid” ham, the kind your guests push around on their plates with polite disinterest.
“You get tired of getting pushed around and told what to do and you want your own power,” he said.
The lifeless body of two-year-old Isabella Jonas-Wheildon was pushed around in a pushchair for days before she was discovered in a locked bathroom at a housing complex in Ipswich in June 2023.
"Do you know what? I don't get bullied; I don't get pushed around, even by the richest man in the world. I have my particular view of Mr Robinson; he has a different one."
"They were getting pushed around and falling down. Children were getting crushed by the crowds."
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