to push
- verb
- /pʊʃ/
- Informal
- You know, and they're pushing the age even earlier.
You know, for you, you would literally pushing on death's door quite often.
- You know, for you, you would literally pushing on death's door quite often.
Examples
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I mean, she must be pushing 50.
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You're pushing 30.
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Which means I am pushing about 36 hours of no sleep.
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I was just I was like, man, I'm really pushing that biological clock.
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I was pushing 30.
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I'm pushing 40.
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Aunt Velda is pushing seventy-five, but she's as strong as she was at sixty and twice as stubborn.
Fiction book (2001) -
She is pushing 40 and still hasn't decided on her career path.
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I can't believe he's pushing 50; he looks so youthful!
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At this rate, we will be pushing 30 when we finally buy a house.
Idioms
- Informal
To try to make something happen when it is already easy or people already agree
Phrasal Verbs
Make a person or thing work as hard as possible until they cannot keep going
- Informal
Move forward through a crowd by forcing people aside with your body
Compounds
A small switch you press with a finger to control a machine like a coffee maker or elevator
A radio you change stations on by pressing preset buttons instead of turning a dial
- Specialized
A storage where the last thing put in comes out first, like a pile of plates
How Close
- Informal
Surface Forms
Etymology
The phrase pushing an age comes from the idea of moving toward a point, from Latin pellere 'to drive'. So if someone is pushing ninety they are being driven up toward that age, almost there.