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UK
/pˈʊʃəʊvɐ/
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[ US /ˈpʊˌʃoʊvɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈpʊˌʃoʊvɝ/ ]
NOUN
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any undertaking that is easy to do
marketing this product will be no picnic - someone who is easily taken advantage of
How To Use pushover In A Sentence
- A pushover try scored from a scrum 15 metres out was next to make it 36-10.
- He is a tough negotiator. We did not expect to find him a pushover and he has not been one.
- He's obviously no pushover, but I think he probably needs someone to be the hard man at his side.
- OK, the visitors are no pushovers, as seen from their second placing in the group and the Germans have not been playing well.
- Since the departure of Jean Chrétien, who knew something about politics being a blood sport, the Liberals have become a party of pushovers, gritless Grits. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- Compared to sprawl, an expressway is a pushover.
- But manager Martin Eede knows Folkestone will be no pushovers.
- Far from being a pushover, the Company, angered by repeated border incursions, struck back vigorously by declaring war.
- Besides, the other members of the household are pretty easy to beat: Frederick the unicorn is a thinker, not a doer; Snuffles is all claws and teeth, but he's out instantly if you get him in a "sleeper" hold; and Phenny the Phoenix became a pushover after we instituted the "No Spontaneously Combusting Your Opponent" rule. Archive 2007-07-01
- Punters swapped pints for pushovers to raise more than £1, 400 for the Royal British Legion Steve Roberts Challenge.