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单词 to push it
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to push it
P4. colloquial. to push it: (a) to press one's claim strongly; (b) to go too far, to overstate the case, to expect too much.
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1842 S. Lover Handy Andy ii They say Tom's pushing it strong there.
1967 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 21 Mar. 2 b/3 Buick says that the Riviera has enough power to make the Rockies seem like the desert flatlands... This may be ‘pushing’ it a bit.
1977 B. Bainbridge Injury Time (1978) iii. 31 Don't push it... It's been difficult enough to persuade her to sit down with you.
1978 Listener 22 June 804/1 The airport in Philadelphia now proudly wears the legend..Welcome to Philadelphia, America's Most Liveable City. That may be pushing it a little.
2003 P. Witton et al. Indonesia (ed. 7) 622/1 It would be pushing it to do the return walk the same day.
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