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单词 to push a person's button
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to push (also press) a person's button(s)
d. colloquial. to push (also press) a person's button(s) and variants: to elicit or provoke a reaction in a person; to manipulate someone psychologically or emotionally.Cf. button pusher n. 2, button pushing n. 2, and button pushing adj. 2.
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1966 Sat. Evening Post 15 Jan. 36/4 Take it easy, man... Who pushed your button today?
1983 J. Macy Despair & Personal Power viii. 154 Developments and encounters can ‘push our buttons’ of fear and defensiveness.
1991 N.Y. Times 5 Nov. a18/6 I was real careful not to push any of her buttons because she had all the information and was going through her own emotional trauma.
2015 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 18 Apr. c2 My kids know how to push my buttons. They are clever and devious.
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