button pusher | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Someone whopushes someone else's buttons: someone who goads, annoys, provokes, etc.Alternative forms:buttonpusher,button-pusherNear-synonyms:gadfly,goader,provocateur,provokerWhen you're dealing with Tom, you need to keep in mind that he can be abutton pushersometimes. Stay cool, and don't reinforce that behavior.; (manufacturing,business,often mildlyderogatory)Alow-skilledorunskilledworker: someone from whom one can expect little or nothing more thanrotepushing of buttons (not showing, for example,critical thinking,insight, orleadership).Alternative forms:buttonpusher,button-pusherBill has been working here for 4 years and is looking for ways to upskill. He says he doesn't want to be abutton pusherforever.

Examples:

EN: I've got one about a button pusher and a bulldog.
ES: Tengo una de uno que oprime botones y de una bulldog. - ¿Una bulldog?
EN: You see, this button pusher was a fella... who was smug and accustomed to having his own way... until along came a little bulldog.
ES: Verás, el que presionaba botones era un tipo... petulante y solía hacer su voluntad hasta que llegó una pequeña bulldog.
EN: But he couldn't change because he was an old button pusher and set in his ways.
ES: No podía cambiar porque era un viejo pulsador de botones de costumbres arraigadas.
EN: There's nothing for the button pusher to do but pick up his marbles and go home.
ES: Al que presiona los botones no le queda más remedio que recoger sus canicas e irse a casa.
EN: Stop yelling at me, you button pusher!
ES: - ¡Deja de gritarme, presiona-botones!
EN: You bet I'm a button pusher, and I'm gonna keep on being a button pusher until I die, and what's more, you're going to like it!
ES: - Claro que lo soy, y lo seguiré siendo hasta el día en que me muera, y es más, ¡te va a gustar!
ES: - Claro que lo soy, y lo seguiré siendo hasta el día en que me muera, y es más, ¡te va a gustar!
EN: She's a pot stirrer, a ball buster, a button pusher.
ES: Es una especuladora, una toca-pelotas, una aprieta-botones.
EN: I'm a button pusher, Spam in a can.
ES: Soy un aprieta botones. Carne en una lata.
EN: I've been here 15 years, but to these guys, I'm just a button pusher.
ES: Llevo 15 años aquí, pero para estos tipos, sólo soy un presionabotones.
EN: You, you're just a button pusher.
ES: Usted, usted es apenas un empujador del botón.
EN: We are going to need a button pusher.
ES: Vamos a necesitar algo que accione los botones.
EN: As long as there's not a camera, no one's going to believe the testimony of some small-town toothless button pusher.
ES: Mientras no haya una cámara, nadie va a creer el testimonio de un pequeño pueblo pulsador de botón sin dientes.
EN: You ever wonder why a vaunted apprentice became a lowly button pusher?
ES: ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué un aprendiz elogiado... se convirtió en un modesto autómata?
EN: I'm just a button pusher in a boring pantsuit.
ES: Yo solo soy la que pulsa los botones con un traje aburrido.
EN: Well, you're kind of a hard button pusher.
ES: Les da muy fuerte a los botones.

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