pushed

Related to pushed: pushed through

pushed

1. Under pressure (to do something). We're all really pushed to get these new processors ready in time for Christmas. You don't want your employees overworked, but they should be a bit pushed to keep them motivated.
2. Compelled (to do something); bothered (about something); interested (in something). Often used in the negative. A: "Do you still want to go into town today?" B: "I'm not pushed, to be honestly. I'd be just as happy to stay home." Are you pushed about keeping this, or can I throw it away?
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

pushed

1. mod. pressured; hurried; under pressure from someone or something. Excuse my abruptness. I’m really pushed at the moment.
2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. Tom is a little pushed and can’t walk very straight.
3. mod. addicted to a drug. (see also push.) He used H. for years before he really got pushed.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • a white Christmas
  • Christmas
  • pushed for cash
  • push (someone or something) over
  • push over
  • get pushed for time
  • Christmas comes but once a year
  • become pushed for time
  • stop and smell the coffee
  • stop and smell the roses
References in periodicals archive
The cellular mobile platform may offer the most lucrative prospect for a post-browsing world of pushed digital data.
Erotica, for a depressing but engrossing account of the latter.) And, apropos of the Bush twins, it pushed to have every state in this sweet land of liberty raise its drinking age to 21.
These mobile users will be pushed information from the 3eTI Telematics Data Center to enhance their operational efficiency with better communication and location awareness.
"They pushed the car to the side of the pavement - they did not jump start it or anything like that."
Researchers in Israel measured the impact of heel strike in 22 study subjects who were pushed to the point of fatigue.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a bulletin stating that debt should be pushed down if "(1) [Target] is to assume the debt of [Holding,] either presently or in a planned transaction in the future; (2) the proceeds of a debt or equity offering of [Target] will be used to retire all or a part of [Holding's] debt; or (3) [Target] guarantees or pledges its assets as collateral for [Holding's] debt." "Push Down" Basis of Accounting for Parent Company Debt Related to Subsidiary Acquisition, SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No.
Women who delayed pushing had fewer difficult births, with a relative risk of 0.8, compared with those who pushed immediately and a confidence interval of 0.66-0.95.
While Republicans at the federal level have had a hard time selling a new round of deep tax cuts for corporations, their counterparts in state capitols have pushed through legislation that has dramatically shifted the tax burden from multinational corporations to working families.
I have been getting information pushed at me in the form of HTML e-mail.
Unfortunately, most of what gets pushed at you on most push engines is rehashed wire stuff and tons of ads.
3 Get even with the defender, don't get pushed outside.
My stranger, if pushed to the bottom, would simply have to start over again.
He is being pushed from Pilate to Caiaphas and Herod.
Other gun control-related measures have been introduced, including one pushed by CBC freshman Mel Reynolds, D.-Ill.
PE suppliers have pushed the effective date of their 4 [cts.]/lb LL/LDPE increases to May 1.