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push the envelope
idiom informal
to behave in more extreme ways, or to try new things that have not been acceptable or tried before:
Just like every other kid, I pushed the envelope. If I got away with being ten minutes late one night, I might be twenty minutes late the next night.
We will keep trying to push the envelope - our market demands it.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Linguistics: very & extreme
abjectly
absolutely
abundantly
abundantly clear
beyond
biblical
downright
extraordinarily
extremely
infinitely
particularly
profoundly
super
super-duper
super-spectacular
superabundantly
surpassingly
totally
violently
whatever
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