Pushing the Manifold

When you go just a centimeter before "the line." You aren't Crossing the Line, you're simply getting as close as possible.

South Park was Pushing the Manifold by including exactly 399 swear words in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, as having 400 would put them at an NC-17.

by JamesnLollify July 30, 2024

Pushing P

Pushing positivity

I am pushing p

by Ryan Reynolds stan February 15, 2024

pushing cheese

Acting confident and know that your up, act with swag and coolness.

Hey guys, I'm pushing cheese today and y'all not

by Sadjhj April 10, 2024

pushing the green thread

a colloquialism used in phased array ultrasonic testing describing the act of maximizing the signal amplitude over a range of angles during calibration

Yo, did you push the green thread? Your sensitivity is whack at 60°
Took me forever to push the green thread on this notch. Sigh.
What’s the point of pushing the green thread for an ‘S’?

by mm_are_better May 22, 2024

pushing the Bayonet

When your body is Deteriorating from doing to many drugs and you continue getting high

Have you seen Erica lately she’s really pushing the bayonet! Someone should tell her the party has to end some time before she’s one with the fishes!

by DaDonDonTayTay March 18, 2025

Pushing jelly

Pushing jelly refers to handling a messy, hard-to-control task where progress is slow and things often fall apart. Unlike moving a solid object, it requires patience and small, careful nudges to keep things together and guide them in the right direction.

Managing cross-team alignment without clear ownership? That’s not project management, it’s pushing jelly.

by Vernism April 18, 2025

Pushing the noodle

The act of trying to do a task that the very act of doing the task injects an element of randomness. Envision a wet spaghetti noodle on a table, and trying to "push the noodle" across the table. See also: herding cats.

Man, trying to get anything through the finance department is like pushing the noodle - you never know where they are going to block you next, but I keep trying to make progress.

by InterestingTidbits June 13, 2025