push around
[verb]
Synonyms: bait, badger, bullyrag, chivy, heckle, hector, hound, ride

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push somebody around (also push somebody about British English) phrasal verb (see also push)
to tell someone what to do in an impolite or threatening way:
Europeans sometimes feel the Americans are trying to push them around.

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push around
push (someone) around
to threaten to hurt someone who is smaller or weaker.
I feel like I'm in third grade and the fourth-grade bully is pushing me around and trying to steal my baseball cards.

I was a lot skinnier then and could get pushed around.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

push around
to make someone do what you want
The sales manager is always pushing around his salespeople.

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push around
v., informal To be bossy with; bully.
Don't try to push me around!
Paul is always pushing the smaller children around.

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