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Not quite innocent when receiving jostle or a soft touch
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pushover
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Pushover is a 1954 American film noir crime film directed by Richard Quine starring Fred MacMurray , Philip Carey and Kim Novak in her first credited role. The motion picture was adapted from two novels, The Night Watch by Thomas Walsh and Rafferty by William ...
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n. 1 Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change his/her mind or comply. 2 Someone who lets himself be picked or bullied on without defending or stand up for him/herself.
Usage examples of pushover.
United States is a pushover for any ambitious or irredentist banana republic.
They would most likely be pushovers, which was just as well for this attack, the army had no air support.
Besides, they're pushovers for somebody who knows how to throw a Frisbee.
By the time he had finished with cosmic catastrophe, his audience would be pushovers for any less cataclysmic scenario.
On the inspections front, UNSCOM and its counterpart for nuclear inspections, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), proved not to be the pushovers Baghdad had expected.
They wouldn't let a three-time loser--a pushover for a fourth fall--stand in their way.
She is no pushover as Mr Stan well knows, having tried the chocolates-and-flowers routine and finally what he calls 'A little smile in the hand, darling', which, when translated out of rag-trade language, means a bribe.