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.

by JizzCaster69 December 11, 2023

Pulling a Grace

When you someone talks about a incredibly niche and somewhat unknown topic for a prolonged experience of time without thinking about it.

Man what are you talking about?

Sorry, I was pulling a Grace.

by snicko May 24, 2023

Pulling a Joe

When a friend says that they will join you for some local Chinese cuisine but then they say no at the last minute.

11:32 am - Person 1: Hey Person 2, how about some Chinese food with me and the gang? Some good ol' Chinois.
11:33 am - Person 2 Sure thing chicken wing.
4:32 pm - Person 2: Hey fellas, i'm not coming any more.
Person 1: Hey man, that's pulling a Joe

by DJLongSchlong February 10, 2018

pulling a moxley

When a teacher assigns a homework assignment or a project at the last second of class.

Person 1: Dude wanna come over and play CoD over the weekend?
Person 2: Naa man I can't my english teacher keeps pulling a moxley.
Person 1: Ha! Sucks for you.

by Aranguyxyz November 24, 2011

Pulling a Quinn

Flirty that ultimately fails but is never stopped

Person 1: *Flirt*
Person 2: Fuck off

Person 1: *Flirt*
Person 3: oh?

Person 2: that damn Person 1 keeps pulling a Quinn
Person 3: huh.

by LiveAndDieFortissimo September 23, 2018

Pulling a Joseph

Harming your significant other in some way shape or form, mentally or physically.

Person 1: “I thought he was going to harm his boyfriend!”

Person 2: “He’d be Pulling a Joseph then, that’s not good.”

by Nyx July 12, 2020

Pulling A Powell

To "whack it" or "pull pud" out of desperation and necessity, often times in what would be widely considered an embarrassing fashion and coated in a stench of relative desperation. Could potentially be the result of repeated female rejection, spurned camping-related advances, and as an adverse byproduct of artificially fabricated 'swag'.

"That guy in the Iron Man tighty-whities is making passionate, ANGRY love to himself..."
"Haha yup, pulling a powell.. we all been there."

by JackDonaghy June 13, 2015