Push one's luck

Definition

push /pƱʃ/ v ၁။ တြန္းသည္။ Don't push until I tell you to. ❍ He was pushing a pram. ❍ Let's push the table nearer the wall. ❍ He pushed a plate of biscuits towards me. ❍ She pushed the car onto the verge. ❍ The dog pushed the door open. ❍ He pushed her to and fro on the swing. ❍ He pushed (hard) against the door with his shoulder. ၂။ တိုးသည္။ တိုးေဝွ႔သည္။ The crowd pushed past (us). ❍ We had to push our way through (the crowd). ❍ There's no need to push, Roy, we've got plenty of time. ❍ There was a lot of pushing and shoving to get a good view of the finish. ၃။ (ေခါင္း၊ ကိုယ္ စသည္) တိုးဝင္သည္။ ထူသည္။ တြန္းသည္။ She pushed her head further under the blanket. ❍ He pushed himself up from the sofa. ၄။ (ခလုတ္စသည္ကို) ႏိွပ္သည္။ Push the doorbell. ❍ You can get sugar (in your coffee) by pushing the red button. ၅။ ထိုးေဖာက္ ခ်ီတက္သည္။ The army pushed (on) towards the Nile. ၆။ ~ sb (into sth/ doing sth); ~ sb (for sth/ to do sth) ( infml ) တိုက္တြန္းသည္။ တြန္းအားေပးသည္။ You'll have to push him or he'll do no work at all. ❍ She pushes her children too hard. ❍ She was pushed into going to university by her parents. ❍ push sb for an explanation/ for payment. ❍ We pushed him to take up science. ၇။ ( infml ) (ေရာင္း ကုန္၊ အႀကံအစည္စသည္) အစြံထုတ္သည္။ We shall be pushing the new model hard. ❍ Unless you push your claim, you will not get satisfaction. ၈။ ( infml ) (မူးယစ္ ေဆးဝါးစသည္) ေရာင္းသည္။ She was arrested for pushing heroin. n ၁။ [C] တြန္းျခင္း။ The car won't start— I need a push. ❍ He gave me a violent push in the back. ❍ The whole system can be activated at the push of a button. ၂။ [C] ထိုးစစ္ႀကီး။ It was decided to postpone the big push until the spring. ၃။ [U] ( infml ) တိုးတက္ႀကီးပြားလိုစိတ္။ He hasn't enough push to be a successful salesman. ❏ at a push [ IDM ] ( infml esp Brit ) ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲ။ We can provide accommodation for six people at a push. ❏ be pushing sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) (အသက္ ၅၀၊ ၆၀ စသည္) ကပ္ေနသည္။ He must be pushing 60 by now. ❏ give sb/ get the push [ IDM ]( infml esp Brit ) ၁။ အလုပ္ထုတ္သည္။ အလုပ္ထုတ္ခံရသည္။ He got the push when the new manager came. ၂။ ခြာၿပဲလိုက္သည္။ He gave his girlfriend the push. ❏ push sb about/ around [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ဩဇာေပး သည္။ She left because she didn't like being pushed round by her manager. ❏ push ahead/ on [ PHRV ] ခရီးႏွင္သည္။ ဆက္ သုတ္ေျခတင္ သည္။ Let's push on— it'll be dark soon. ❏ push ahead/ forward/ on (with sth) [ PHRV ] ေရွ႕ဇြတ္တိုးလုပ္သည္။ push ahead with one's plans ❍ We ignored all the interruptions and pushed on with the meeting. ❏ push along [ PHRV ]( infml ) ႏႈတ္ဆက္ထြက္ခြာသည္။ It's late— I'd better be pushing along now. ❏ push- bike n ( Brit infml ) စက္ဘီး။ an old push-bike. ❏ push the boat out [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) အိတ္သြန္ ဖာေမွာက္ ေပ်ာ္ပြဲဆင္ႏႊဲသည္။ This is the last time we'll see her, so let's really push the boat out. ❏ push- button adj ခလုတ္ႏိွပ္ရေသာ။ a radio with push-button tuning ❍ a push-button phone. ❏ pushed adj ( infml ) ၁။ ~ for sth အက်ပ္႐ိုက္သည္။ be very pushed for money/ space/ time. ၂။ (က) ~ (to do sth) အခက္အခဲရိွသည္။ We'll be pushed to get there in time. (ခ) အလုပ္မ်ားသည္။ မအားမလပ္ျဖစ္သည္။ I'm a bit pushed at the moment— can I ring you back? ❏ pusher n ၁။ ( infml ) (မူးယစ္ေဆးဝါး) ဥပေဒမဲ့ ေရာင္းသူ၊ ခိုးေရာင္းသူ။ ၂။ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ တြန္းသူ။ a wheelchair pusher. See also PEN-PUSHER ❏ push for sth [ PHRV ] ထပ္တလဲလဲ ေတာင္းဆိုသည္။ push for electoral reform. ❏ push sth forward [ PHRV ] ဇြတ္တင္ျပသည္။ ေရွ႕တန္း တင္သည္။ He repeatedly pushed forward his own claim. ❏ push oneself forward [ PHRV ] ( often derog ) မိမိကိုယ္မိမိ ေရွ႕တန္းတင္သည္။ ❏ push in [ PHRV ] တန္းစီေနၾကစဥ္ ျဖတ္ဝင္သည္။ I was standing in the queue and this man pushed in (in front of me). ❏ push one's luck [ IDM ]( infml ) အတင့္ရဲသည္။ You didn't get caught last time,but don't push your luck! ❏ push off [ PHRV ] ၁။ ( infml ) ထြက္သြားခိုင္းသည္။ (သို႔) ထြက္သြားသည္။ Push off! We don't want you here. ❍ They obviously didn't want us to stay, so we pushed off. ၂။ ေလွကို တြန္းထုတ္၍ ကမ္း စသည္မွ (ကပ္ထားရာမွ) ခြာသည္။ ❏ push out [ PHRV ]( infml ) ဒလေဟာ ထုတ္လုပ္သည္။ factories pushing out cheap cotton goods. ❏ push sb/ sth over [ PHRV ] တြန္းခ်သည္။ ❏ push- start v တြန္းႏိႈးသည္။ push-start n ❏ push sth through (sth) [ PHRV ] (ကိစၥတစ္ရပ္ကို) တရားဝင္ လက္ခံၿပီးေျမာက္ေစသည္။ push reforms through ❍ push a plan through the committee stage. ❏ push sth up [ PHRV ] ေဈးႏႈန္း၊ တန္ဖိုးျမင့္တက္ေစသည္။ A shortage of building land will push property values up. ❏ push-up n ( esp US ) = PRESS-UP ❏ push up (the) daisies [ IDM ] ( infml joc ) ေသလို႔ အ႐ိုးေဆြးေနေပါ့။ I'll be pushing up the daisies by the time this project is finished!

Examples

1. Push as hard as you can.
2. [push someone/something away] : She gently pushed him away.
3. [push something around] : He was pushing a trolley around the supermarket.
4. [push at] : He pushed at a door in the courtyard.
5. [push someone/something into someone/something] : Rebecca pushed her handkerchief into her pocket.
6. [push someone/something against someone/something] : The table had been pushed against the wall.
7. [push something open/shut] : I pushed open the door with my foot.
8. To turn on the television
9. you push this switch.
10. Stop pushing and just wait your turn.
11. Pushing to the front of the queue
12. he managed to get the last tickets.
13. [push past] : He just pushed past Fred and left.
14. [push your way through] : I was pushing my way through the crowd.
15. [push and shove] : People were pushing and shoving
16. trying to get to the best seats first.
17. He saw the interview as an opportunity to push his latest film.
18. [push something up/down/into/towards] : The Bank of England had pushed up interest rates sharply to protect the pound from speculators.
19. The strong sunshine had pushed temperatures into the nineties.
20. [push someone to do something] : The United States pushed NATO to authorize military intervention.
21. [push someone into (doing) something] : The police pushed her into giving evidence.
22. A lot of parents push their children
23. but my dad only ever encourages and supports me.
24. If you push him too far
25. he’ll resign.
26. Government troops pushed into the northern sector.