press/push the right button/buttons

to do exactly what is necessary to get the result that you want.

You have to know how to push all the right buttons if you want to be a successful diplomat.

Sometimes you're interviewing someone really shy and then you press the right button and they just don't stop talking.

• refer someone to something
• refer something to
• refer something to someone
• refer something to something
• refer to
• refer to someone
• refer to someone as
• refer to someone as someone
• refer to someone as something
• refer to something
• refer to something as
• refer to something as someone
• refer to something as something
• reflect on
• reflect on someone
• reflect on something
• refresh memory
• refresh your memory
• regardless of
• regardless of something
• reign of terror
• rein in
• rein in someone
• rein in something
• reinvent the wheel