词组 | push the panic button |
释义 | Idiom push the panic button and press the panic button Theme: ANXIETY to panic; to become anxious or panicky. (Slang.)I do okay taking tests as long as I don t push the panic button.Whatever you do, don't press the panic button. Slang hit the panic button and press the panic button; push the panic button Theme: PANIC tr. to panic.She hit the panic button and just went to pieces.Don't press the panic button. Relax and keep your eyes open. Idiom push the panic buttonhit/press/push the panic button to do something quickly without thinking about it in order to deal with a difficult or worrying situation.We may have lost the last three games but we're not pushing the panic button yet. (often negative)push the panic buttonTo overreact to a negative situation with an inordinate amount of fear, alarm, or confusion. If you're going to be a successful boss, you can't push the panic button every time your company has a minor setback. New parents tend to push the panic button over every little sniffle their first baby gets. You learn to chill out when you have more kids. push the panic buttonAlso, press the panic button. Overreact to a situation, as in Don't worry; Jane is always pushing the panic button, but I'm sure the baby's fine. This term originated during World War II, when certain bombers had a bell-warning system so that the crew could bail out if the plane was severely hit. Occasionally a pilot would push the button in error, when there was only minor damage, causing the crew to bail out unnecessarily. By 1950 the expression had been transferred to other kinds of overreaction. press/push the ˈpanic button(British English) react in a sudden or an extreme way to something unexpected that has frightened you: Although the team lost yet another match on Saturday, their manager is refusing to press the panic button.push the panic buttonverbSee hit the panic button push the panic button, toTo overreact to a supposed emergency. This term originated during World War II, when B-17 and B-24 bombers had a bell-warning system so that the crew could bail out when the plane was badly hit. Occasionally this button would be pushed by mistake and the crew would bail out unnecessarily, even though the plane was virtually undamaged. By extension, the term came to mean acting in needless haste. In the 1950s it gained currency—and a more sinister meaning—when it also referred to releasing a nuclear warhead by pushing a button. |
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