Relationships

push each other

encourage one another to make more effort

When people push each other, they encourage one another to work harder or keep going.

B2 common mostly spoken

expression

Hear it in real life

Why do you enjoy training with them?

We push each other when the workout gets difficult.

Play the conversation

The members of our running group push each other to finish every session.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: We push each other for improving our fitness.

Say: We push each other to improve our fitness.

With this encouragement meaning, “push each other” takes “to” before the action being encouraged.

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How it fits in a sentence.

push each other to do something; push each other on

Your turn: say it out loud

The members of our running group push each other to finish every session.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

push each other

encourage one another to make more effort

“The members of our running group push each other to finish every session.”

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