Meaning of push around | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, around.
2. To treat contemptuously and unfairly; to bully
   figuratively, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight⟳ for Survival., National Geographic (March⟳ 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/ Yaki have⟳ just one natural predator, the reticulated python, but they have⟳ many enemies. Land⟳ clearers are pushing the monkeys around. Roadbuilders are hemming them in. And outlaw trappers have⟳ them running for their lives.”

“Pushing little children with their fully automatics they like⟳ to push⟳ the weak around.”

CEFR level