pushing

  • 41Pushing Hands — Tuishou (chin. 推手, tuī shǒu „schiebende Hände“), oder auch englisch Pushing hands, bezeichnet eine Partnerübung in den inneren Kampfkünsten, wie z. B. dem Taijiquan. Dabei stehen sich die Partner gegenüber und berühren einander an den Armen und… …

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  • 42pushing fifty — nearly 50 years old, 48 or 49 years old    Bart is pushing fifty, but he looks much younger …

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  • 43Pushing up the daisies —   If someone is said to be pushing up the daisies, they are dead …

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  • 44pushing up daisies — I pushing up (the) daisies informal dead and buried II see daisy …

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  • 45pushing — adjective Date: 1677 1. marked by ambition, energy, enterprise, and initiative 2. marked by tactless forwardness or officious intrusiveness …

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  • 46pushing — pushingly, adv. pushingness, n. /poosh ing/, adj. 1. that pushes. 2. enterprising; energetic. 3. tactlessly or officiously aggressive; forward; intrusive. [1520 30; PUSH + ING2] Syn. 2. ambitious. 3. offensive. * * * …

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  • 47pushing — verb Dealing illicit drugs, especially to minors …

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  • 48pushing — Synonyms and related words: adventuresome, adventurous, aggressive, ambitious, assertive, brash, busy, busybody, driving, dynamic, enterprising, forceful, forward, go ahead, hustling, impertinent, inquisitive, meddlesome, meddling, militant,… …

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  • 49pushing — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. aggressive, forward, ambitious, pushy*; see aggressive 1 . See Synonym Study at aggressive …

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  • 50pushing — push·ing || pʊʃɪŋ adj. applying force, shoving n. act of pressing; act of placing pressure on; act of shoving, act of jostling, act of thrusting from behind pʊʃ n. act of shoving or thrusting; shove, thrust; application of pressure;… …

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