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What (who) is push over - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Pushover (disambiguation); Push Over
push over
If you push someone or something over, you push them so that they fall onto the ground.
People have damaged hedges and pushed over walls...
Anna is always attacking other children, pushing them over.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
see also pushover
pushover
(pushovers)
1.
You say that someone is a pushover when you find it easy to persuade them to do what you want. (INFORMAL)
He is a tough negotiator. We did not expect to find him a pushover and he has not been one.
N-COUNT
2.
You say that something is a pushover when it is easy to do or easy to get. (INFORMAL)
You might think Hungarian a pushover to learn. It is not.
= doddle
N-COUNT: usu sing
pushover
¦ noun
1. informal a person who is easy to overcome or influence.
a thing that is very easily done.
2. Rugby a try in which one side in a scrum pushes the ball over the opponents' goal line.
Wikipedia
Pushover
Pushover or Push Over may refer to:
- Pushover EP, by Australian singer Lisa Miller
- Pushover (film), a 1954 film noir starring Fred MacMurray
- Pushover (video game), a 1992 game from Ocean
- Pushover analysis, a type of seismic analysis
- "Push Over", a segment game from The Price Is Right
- "Pushover", a song by Etta James from the 1963 album Etta James Top Ten
- "Pushover", a song by The Long Winters from the 2006 album Putting the Days to Bed
- Pushover try, a try scored from a set-piece scrum in rugby union; see Scrum (rugby union)#Awarding
- Push Over (band), an American post-hardcore band
Examples of use of push over
1. But they are clearly no push–over, as their rather audacious recent raids have shown.
2. They started on him because they thought he would be a push–over but my son stood up to them.
3. AUGUST 2004÷ WITTON CEMETERY, BIRMINGHAM Two men smash or push over about 60 graves and are charged with racially aggravated offences.
4. "North Korea and the United States may pull and push over the wording of ‘appropriate time‘ but the South Korean government‘s role is to mediate," President Roh Moo–hyun‘s spokesman quoted him as saying.
5. The once–mighty UUP has been in meltdown since May 5, when accusations that it was responsible for ‘push–over unionism‘ led to a near–total collapse of support in favour of the Reverend Ian Paisley‘s hardline Democratic Unionists.