push around
verb1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, around.
2
Figuratively To treat contemptuously and unfairly; to bully
- 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.2001, System of a Down, Deer Dance: