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pushing the ejector button

That fantasy of relief that everyone has had when trapped listening to someone who drones on and on about something they do not want to hear.
So we’re driving along on Highway 1, headed northward on a most beautiful stretch of the California coastline, and the next thing I know, I’m pushing the ejector button!

pushing the dutch button 

1. Me and Anthony are gunna take turns pushing the dutch button, Dad.

2. Hey man, Push the Dutch Button.

Why don't you push the dutch button, jackass.

pushing buttons 

Pushing the emotion "buttons" on someone, most commonly anger/grief.

It implies that the pusher knows where the other person's buttons are, meaning, how to get at him. So button pushing is usually done after someone exposed himself as being passionate or angry about something in a situation, or the person is known well by the pusher.
"he's just pushing your buttons"

"she's just pushing buttons"
pushing buttons by allezhop May 4, 2016

Pushing Buttons 

Getting dressed up. Putting on you finest apparel.
We are pushing buttons on Saturday night for a night on the town
Pushing Buttons by Offthehot October 8, 2009

pushing buttons and pulling levers 

A way of describing a job that is mechanical literally like a factory worker or figuratively but still much like a flow chart. The antithesis of this is anything that requires highly specialized skill and intuition.
After pushing buttons and pulling levers for 40 years at the wooden toy factory, Leroy had a knack for fitting square pegs in round holes as evidence by the collections of rasps and files he had in his pocket.

How bout dem knicks? 

A phrase referring twoard the New York Knicks.
Its usually said to break an unplesent moment of silence.
Guy 1: I think I may be gay.
Guy 2: ...
Guy 1: ...
Guy 2: How bout dem knicks?
How bout dem knicks? by Flame060 March 28, 2005
Word of the Day on June 8, 2026