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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
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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.

Talentless Button-Pushing Thundercunts

"Daft Punk are talentless button-pushing thundercunts"

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.
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
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