Push Comes to Shove
by Michael Feeley
What does it mean – “…when push comes to shove.”
When you push, you move forward or away from something.
It’s an aggressive idiom in which a push actively becomes a firm or rough shove. It happens when something reaches a critical point and needs to be different, when something becomes emergent, immoral, unkind, or intolerable, and you decide to do something about it. “We won’t be bullied. We plan to stand our ground. Not to quit or give in. ”
Maybe ‘push comes to shove’ is said more these days because of the changes we live with—new governments, rules, actions, and procedures.
We watch and experience things. Some changes are shocking, some feel okay, and some hit an immediate breaking point.
The easy answer is that tolerance, looking the other way, and waiting for someone else to act will not do, so the push for justice, respect, equality, and peace comes to a well-deserved shove.
Thanks – Michael (he, him)
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This also matters – Truth and Justice Travel with You.
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