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push paper
Idioms and Phrases
Do administrative, often petty, paperwork. For example, She spent the whole day pushing paper for her boss . [ Colloquial ; second half of 1900s]Example Sentences
The rest push paper with uninteresting colleagues and over time, you’ll become like them.
Let’s say Kansas’s Devon Dotson got to sit in a padded chair and push paper for his cut of $1 billion, while he suggested that Emmert and ACC Commissioner John Swofford should jiggle up and down the court, swapping potentially viral fluids and risking their health and futures?
“ they can do in absence of a quorum is push paper around,” he said.
He hasn’t ruled out a return to coaching as an assistant if he “found a job where I could actually coach and not push paper all day.”
Glover plays Earn, an aspiring rap manager whose cousin has a song and a dream; Earn’s attempts to push “Paper Boi” to stardom, and himself to stardom-adjacent comfort, run up against the wall of reality.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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