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Mind your language

Dot Wordsworth: Jostling aggressively with 'selfie' and 'twerk', we have 'push back'

It's now in vogue, is popular with academics and denizens of the Westminster bubble — and sometimes has no meaning 

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

Something funny happened when my husband yawned. I yawned. That wasn’t the funny thing. The funny thing was that I recognised the chain reaction from somewhere else. It was from Start the Week on Radio 4, where somebody spoke of pushing back. Before the programme was over, everyone seemed to say push back.

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