push it
idiom
informal
: to continue to do or to try to do something when one should stop
If your mom already said "no" two times, don't push it.
You've won a lot of money, but don't push it or you could lose it all.
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The visuals push it to next-level nutty, with a projector that engulfs Julia in flames and clips from festivals of massive crowds.
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 25 June 2025
Researchers have suggested using such a spacecraft’s gravity to tug the asteroid off its path or ion-beam engines to gradually push it.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 June 2025
Wilton Manors Police released surveillance video on Tuesday, showing a shirtless man walk up to the 3-foot-tall fiberglass manatee statue at Justin Flippen Park just before 1 a.m. June 3 and push it down from its pedestal.
—Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 10 June 2025
In this Anybody’s Ballgame Era of the NBA, a team needs enough dependable bodies to push it up to the mountaintop.
—Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 19 May 2025
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 25 June 2025
Researchers have suggested using such a spacecraft’s gravity to tug the asteroid off its path or ion-beam engines to gradually push it.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 June 2025
Wilton Manors Police released surveillance video on Tuesday, showing a shirtless man walk up to the 3-foot-tall fiberglass manatee statue at Justin Flippen Park just before 1 a.m. June 3 and push it down from its pedestal.
—Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 10 June 2025
In this Anybody’s Ballgame Era of the NBA, a team needs enough dependable bodies to push it up to the mountaintop.
—Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 19 May 2025
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“Push it.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/push%20it. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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