pushing buttons
Pushing the emotion "
buttons" on someone, most commonly anger/
grief.It implies that the
pusher knows where the other person's buttons are, meaning, how to get at him. So button pushing is usually done after someone exposed himself as being passionate or angry about something in a situation, or the person is known well by the pusher.
Push buttons
by WilliamFuentes.com/2005/AlexaDanner.html on Apr 21, 2005 03:07:42
v. - to
push buttons
1. To deliberately
irritate
2. To intentionally provoke another without reason
3. To wear away at the patience of someone until that person wants to
slap you
4. To
capitalize on the emotional vulnerabilities of another
Example:
example: "Don't worry,
chocolate doesn't make
you fat," Mike said to
his
slender but weight-conscious girlfriend.
Pushing Buttons
by Offthehot on Oct 09, 2009 02:44:18
Push button, Recieve Bacon
by Hachiro on Oct 24, 2009 22:05:54
A humorous meme that began with a photo of an electric hand
drier with the pictures describing how to use
the machine. (One presses
the button to begin the airflow) The images looked like they described "Push button to receive bacon"
Example:
*Guy looks at
hand drier* "
Ooh! Look! Push button, Recieve Bacon !"
push the button
by Ron Pierce on May 21, 2006 17:07:46
push the button
by meansparty on Aug 28, 2010 02:29:11
Example:
All I did at work today was push
the button.
I'm doing the same thing I do every night, honey: pushing the button.
If I don't push the button every
108 minutes the world will end,
or whatever.
Push the Button
by Four-toed Statue on Aug 14, 2009 23:17:26
push the button
by Rocky Mountain Potorado on Jan 04, 2016 09:03:32
Example:
Mayweather fights in a style that doesn't let his opponents push
the button.
When grandpa watches Fox News all day all he becomes cranky and mutters about pushing the button on those anti christian sand
diggers.
When we stay with her parents at the cabin my girlfriend expects me to at least push the button when we go off to sleep.
push the button
by Fat_Boyh on Sep 25, 2006 07:48:06
Telling someone to shut up, or to completly change the
subject that the
target has
no idea what to say.
push the button
by charlesmcguffy on Oct 09, 2007 00:05:43