Following on from the excellent 'We are where we are' I now bring you the 'Push back'. When written it sounds like a toilet muscle strain but is in reality a great way of calling some one a difficult bastard or bigging yourself up.
Here's an example:
MIKE: Does Tony agree with the new company strategy?
STEVE: He's pushing back on aspects of our new customer brand promise thingy
MIKE: Really? I thought we had him on board? How hard is he pushing?
STEVE: Very, I mean it's his baby
MIKE: Bastard
Alternatively it's a way of making yourself look harder than you are in reality.
BOSS: How goes the creative for the new book?
ME: The design company told me the this morning that the concept had 'moved on'
BOSS: That doesn't sound good, what did you do?
ME: I pushed back pretty hard
BOSS: How hard?
ME: Pretty damn hard actually
BOSS: You're a bastard but I like you
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