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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]
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The rest push paper with uninteresting colleagues and over time, you’ll become like them.

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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?

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“What they can do in absence of a quorum is push paper around,” he said.

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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.”

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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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