press someone's buttons

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Verb

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to press someone's buttons (third-person singular simple present presses someone's buttons, present participle pressing someone's buttons, simple past and past participle pressed someone's buttons)

  1. Alternative form of push someone's buttons
    • 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 55:
      But I'm pretty persuasive, and I've learned how elected officials think. I know how to press their buttons.

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