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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I’m so pushed off. I can’t bitch because I allow myself to be that but it doesn’t help me stop feeling wilted and worn out.
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I’m so pushed off right now, I am generally concerned for anyone’s well being who makes me even more mad, like I’m about to break something.
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Still “heroes” it’s REALLY pushing me off… The x-men, handled well or not, are “cleaner” symbols or repressed and hated minorities…
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...I can’t use my Foxfi app and it’s really pushing me off because I actually used that app for Kindle now it will not work…
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Not very many of these, but otherwise it seems eggcornish. I get an image of someone’s being pushed off the deep end, into rage.
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I suspect the idiomatic dismissal “Push off!” (Mostly British if i’m not mistaken) plays into it, as it and “Piss off” can be used for the same purpose.
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Just for the sake of completeness, there’s also the intermediate ‘pish’ for ‘piss’ often used by Scots. ‘Push off’ as an imperative strikes me as being very weak, at one end of a series of offs with ‘fuck’ at the other and assorted shoves, sods, naffs, buggers and pisses in between. I find ‘push off’ used far more frequently when declaring a vague unwillingness to depart – “I suppose I’d better push off now,” as if from the hips down we were all canoes, and all our walkways watery. And back to Dixon’s examples, as a most reluctant sailor I imagine I’d be pretty pissed off if I were unexpectedly pushed off.
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