push (one's) buttons Idiom, Proverb

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pop your buttons

feel very proud, be full of pride When you received the award, did you pop your buttons?

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push the right buttons

say the right things, do the right things The players want to play for Pat. She pushes all the right buttons.

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Don't push my buttons!

This can be said to someone who is starting to annoy you.

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have all one's buttons|buttons|have|have all one's

v. phr., slang To have all your understanding; be reasonable. Usually used in the negative or conditionally. Mike acts sometimes as if he didn't have all his buttons. He would not go to town barefooted if he had all his marbles.

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have all one's buttons

have all one's buttons
Also, have all one's marbles. Be completely sane and rational. For example, Grandma may be in a wheelchair, but she still has all her buttons, or I'm not sure he has all his marbles. These slangy expressions date from the mid-1800s, as do the antonyms lose or be missing some of one's buttons or marbles, meaning “become (or be) mentally deficient.”

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lose one's buttons

lose one's buttons
see under have all one's buttons.

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push someone's buttons

push someone's buttons
Also, press someone's buttons. Draw a strong emotional reaction from someone, especially anger or sexual arousal. For example, My mother-in-law really knew how to push my buttons, or A good-looking redhead, she always seemed to press his buttons. This metaphoric expression transfers activating some mechanism by pushing buttons to human emotions. [Slang; 1920s]

push (one's) buttons

1. To do things that actualize a actual able affecting acknowledgment in one, abnormally anger, irritation, or exasperation. I abhorrence Dave's new boyfriend, he's consistently aggravating to advance my buttons, and he's accomplishing a acceptable job of it! No one will be able to advance your buttons like your children, but it's all a allotment of the chance of parenthood.2. To be sexually adorable or agitative to one. A guy who knows how to baker absolutely pushes my buttons.Learn more: button, push

push someone's buttons

Also, press someone's buttons. Draw a able affecting acknowledgment from someone, abnormally acrimony or animal arousal. For example, My mother-in-law absolutely knew how to advance my buttons, or A attractive redhead, she consistently seemed to columnist his buttons. This allegorical announcement transfers activating some apparatus by blame buttons to animal emotions. [Slang; 1920s] Learn more: button, push

push (or press) someone's buttons

be acknowledged in agitative or afflictive a acknowledgment in someone. informalLearn more: button, push

ˌpush somebody’s ˈbuttons

(also ˌpress somebody’s ˈbuttons abnormally in British English ) (informal) accomplish somebody react, abnormally in an affronted or aflame way: I about never lose my temper, but this guy can absolutely advance my buttons. ♢ I’ve accepted him for years, but I still don’t absolutely apperceive what pushes his buttons.Learn more: button, push

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