| Subject | English | Russian |
| gen. | push back the limits | расширять границы (Elena_MKK) |
| gen. | push back the limits | раздвигать границы возможного (Elena_MKK) |
| gen. | push back the limits | расширить горизонты (Elena_MKK) |
| gen. | push forward the limits | раздвигать границы (maystay) |
| dipl. | push the budget over its prescribed limits | увеличить бюджет сверх установленных пределов |
| polit. | push the limits | выходить за пределы допустимого (CNN Alex_Odeychuk) |
| idiom. | push the limits | раздвигать границы (push the limits of Баян) |
| fig. | push the limits | выйти за пределы (the result of our desire to push the limits of what people expect from an umbrella ART Vancouver) |
| disappr. | push the limits of decency | выходить за рамки приличия (Many high-school students already push the limits of decency, as is indicated in the picture of a female student wearing an exposed bra. As a teacher, I have to avert my gaze when so many female students are wearing skimpy, revealing clothes to class. This term one student of mine wore a loose fitting top sharply cut away at the sides that revealed most of the side of her bare breasts. Another wore small lacy short pants that provided no coverage of the lower part of her buttocks. Her shorts looked more like lingerie than outerwear. The students in many so-called Third World nations are proud to wear their school uniforms; in Canada, however, students seem to want to "celebrate" trashiness and mediocrity. [Online comments to a newspaper story] ART Vancouver) |
| gen. | push to the limit | довести до предела |
| gen. | push to the limit | привести в бешенство (Black_Swan) |
| sport. | push to the limit | выложиться по полной (oneself DoctorKto) |
| gen. | push to the limit | дойти до предела своих возможностей (бывает limits Зубцов) |
| gen. | push smb. to the limits of his patience | доводить кого-л. до крайности (to the last extremity, to the verge of exhaustion, to the point of self-torture, etc., и т.д.) |