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"
by allezhop January 22, 2016
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Push buttons

v. - to push buttons

1. To deliberately irritate
2. To intentionally provoke another without reason
3. To wear away at the patience of someone until that person wants to
slap you
4. To capitalize on the emotional vulnerabilities of another
example: "Don't worry, chocolate doesn't make you fat," Mike said to
his slender but weight-conscious girlfriend.
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Push button, Recieve Bacon

A humorous meme that began with a photo of an electric hand drier with the pictures describing how to use the machine. (One presses the button to begin the airflow) The images looked like they described "Push button to receive bacon"
*Guy looks at hand drier* "Ooh! Look! Push button, Recieve Bacon !"
by Hachiro October 24, 2009
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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 12, 2023
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