Can it also mean "arouse someone's interest"?
2007-02-10 14:24:22 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Corporations
No, not really. Pressing someone's buttons means to annoy the person, or anger them.
2007-02-10 14:27:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A parable is not to be taken literally. The point of this parable is to be prepared. It does not mean keep a stock of oil in the house. Jesus was in the garden of Gethsemane. It is simply the name of the place where an olive garden is. Some of the trees that are there now date back to the time of Christ. HOWEVER, "It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him. For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people." While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard--very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head. But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted? For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." They grumbled against her. But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me. She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying. Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her." Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them. They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him." - Mark 14:1-11 This passage also speaks of Jesus being anointed with oil...but it is not that of olives. .
2016-05-25 07:28:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To press someone's button is to set them off - angry
I don't think you can use that expression to arouse interest.
2007-02-10 14:27:52 · answer #3 · answered by pinaykezzes 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To "Push someone's buttons," means you know what to say or do to that person to get a predictable reaction -- usually used to refer to making the person angry, but other reactions are possible.
2007-02-10 14:29:01 · answer #4 · answered by Char 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually it means to manipulate them. Like a machine you can press buttons to make it do things.
2007-02-10 14:28:58 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES and no to arousal of interest
2007-02-10 14:27:00 · answer #6 · answered by kandiekane777 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It does mean to make someone angry, to get them made in certain ways!
2007-02-10 14:27:43 · answer #7 · answered by sabrinashakedownn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes,tomaking angry ,no to arousing, thats called flirting
2007-02-10 14:27:26 · answer #8 · answered by rockstarhooligan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's more like "aggravate someone", than make them angry.
2007-02-10 14:28:12 · answer #9 · answered by Daddy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-02-10 16:17:41 · answer #10 · answered by batwanda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋