push the right buttons

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Verb[edit]

push the right buttons (third-person singular simple present pushes the right buttons, present participle pushing the right buttons, simple past and past participle pushed the right buttons)

  1. (informal) To take suitable actions, or exert suitable influence on people, to achieve some desired result.

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